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skip it

do not worry about it. “Why is New York called the Empire State?” “What did you say?” “Skip it — it's not important.”

Related vocabulary: never mind (someone/something)

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of skip something (= to not have or do something)

See also: skip

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? References in classic literature
We would bestow some pains here in minutely describing all the mad pranks which Jones played on this occasion, could we be well assured that the reader would take the same pains in perusing them; but as we are apprehensive that, after all the labour which we should employ in painting this scene, the said reader would be very apt to skip it entirely over, we have saved ourselves that trouble. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context More results

References in classic literature

We would bestow some pains here in minutely describing all the mad pranks which Jones played on this occasion, could we be well assured that the reader would take the same pains in perusing them; but as we are apprehensive that, after all the labour which we should employ in painting this scene, the said reader would be very apt to skip it entirely over, we have saved ourselves that trouble.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

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