skirt around

English

Verb

skirt around (third-person singular simple present skirts around, present participle skirting around, simple past and past participle skirted around)

1. To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
   • 2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.

Related terms

• dance around
• talk around
• tap dance around

Translations

circumvent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迴避 / 回避 (zh) (huíbì)

• Dutch: omzeilen (nl)
• Finnish: kiertää (fi), kierrellä (fi), vältellä (fi)
• Maori: taku