"skate on thin ice" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-skate on thin ice.ogg Forms: to skate on thin ice [canonical], skates on thin ice [present, singular, third-person], skating on thin ice [participle, present], skated on thin ice [participle, past], skated on thin ice [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=to skate on thin ice}} to skate on thin ice (third-person singular simple present skates on thin ice, present participle skating on thin ice, simple past and past participle skated on thin ice)
  1. (idiomatic) To be (or to place oneself) in a risky, potentially dangerous or delicate situation. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to be in potentially risky situation): chodit po tenkém ledě (Czech), bruslit na tenkém ledu (Czech), liikkua heikoilla jäillä (Finnish), sich auf dünnem Eis bewegen (German), vara ute på hal is (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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