How to pronounce “skate on thin ice”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (idiomatic) To be (or to place oneself) in a risky, potentially dangerous or delicate situation.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

skinniness, scantiness, skittishness, seeing things, squatness, seediness, santino, sanjana, santina, santone