skip it
skip it
To forgo addressing some issue or thing, perhaps until a later time. If you can't solve that math problem, just skip it for now and come back to it later. If you come up to a question that you don't know the answer to, just skip it. It's better to leave a question blank than to guess poorly.
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Skip it!
Inf. Never mind!; Forget it! (shows impatience or disappointment.) John: I need some help on this project. Mary: What? John: oh, skip it! Jane: Will you be able to do this, or should I get someone with more experience? Bob: What did you say? Jane: oh, skip it!
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
skip it
Drop the subject, ignore the matter, as in I don't understand what you mean.-Oh, skip it for now. This interjection uses skip in the sense of "pass over." [Colloquial; c. 1930]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
ˈskip it
(spoken, informal) used to tell somebody impolitely that you do not want to talk about something or repeat what you have said: ‘What were you saying?’ ‘Oh, skip it!’See also: skip
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Skip it!
exclam. Forget it!; Never mind! I won’t bother you with my question again. Skip it!
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