be skating on thin ice in Englisch

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  "etymology_texts": [
    "wörtlich „laufen auf dünnem Eis“; sieheskate, thin, ice"
  ],
  "hyphenation": "be skat·ing on thin ice",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
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          "text": "He was skating on thin ice in his speech because he had no real knowledge of the subject.",
          "translation": "Er hatte sich in seiner Rede auf dünnem Eis bewegt, denn er hatte nicht viel Ahnung von der Materie."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in einer prekären Lage sein"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "in einer prekären Lage sein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "sich auf dünnem Eis bewegen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "be skating on thin ice"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Englisch",
    "Redewendung (Englisch)",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "wörtlich „laufen auf dünnem Eis“; sieheskate, thin, ice"
  ],
  "hyphenation": "be skat·ing on thin ice",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "Redewendung",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "italic_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              26
            ]
          ],
          "text": "He was skating on thin ice in his speech because he had no real knowledge of the subject.",
          "translation": "Er hatte sich in seiner Rede auf dünnem Eis bewegt, denn er hatte nicht viel Ahnung von der Materie."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in einer prekären Lage sein"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "in einer prekären Lage sein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "sich auf dünnem Eis bewegen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "be skating on thin ice"
}

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"be skating on thin ice" meaning in Englisch

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