"skate on thin ice" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-skate on thin ice.ogg [Australia] 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): liikkua heikoilla jäillä (Finnish), sich auf dünnem Eis bewegen (German)
    Sense id: en-skate_on_thin_ice-en-verb-daicNSZ~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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