英语词汇skate on thin ice的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	skate on thin ice
词源	skate on thin ice. The allusion here is to skating over ice so thin that it hardly bears the skater’s weight. This was actually once a sport called tickledybendo in New England. The meta- phor skating on thin ice means that someone is taking chances, or behaving in a questionable, dangerous, or indelicate manner.
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