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.

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