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hop, skip, and (a) jump

1. A short distance away from a certain location. My apartment's location is so convenient. It's just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the train station and the grocery store.
2. Very similar (to something else). I thought you could handle this project because it's just a hop, skip, and a jump from the one you're working on now.
See also: and, jump

skip (out)

Inf. to leave; to run away without doing something, such as paying a bill. The guy skipped when the waitress wasn't looking. Fred skipped out, leaving me with the bill.

skip

verb
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As one skip is being loaded by a dump truck at the bottom station, the second skip is located at the top station above the crusher or the truck loading point.
Thyssenkrupp's skip way system offers an alternative: it's an energy-balanced, steep-angle conveying concept designed to reduce operating costs and optimize energy efficiency for smaller, deeper open-pit mines
For the rest of the night, Skip continued to go back to that question to make sure the young lady had it right.
Remembering skip
AN ENTERPRENEUR has created a light to make rubbish skips easier to see and which he hopes will stop drivers crashing into them.
George comes up with a bright design; in association with RBS
A council source said: "The pounds 3 9,000 budget to provide skips for Bordesley Green residents was supposed to be split equally between the two Lib Dem councillors and Labour councillor Shafique Khan.
SKIPS ON 'EVERY STREET' Lib Dems rubbish claim they bought votes
The report found that skip dipping wasn't just practiced by the poor and needy.
Skip dipping: turning waste into wealth: would you eat food that you found in a skip behind a supermarket? What if you found a pair of jeans that were a perfect fit? Or a brand new appliance in flawless working order?
2632(c)(4) provides that in the case of a transfer subject to an ETIP, an indirect skip is deemed to have been made only on the close of the ETIP.
New regs. on elections for indirect skips: final regulations on indirect skip transfer elections give taxpayers many generation-skipping transfer tax planning options. This article explains the election rules and available planning opportunities under the new regulations
GST exemption can be allocated to trusts likely to benefit skip persons and not to trusts for the benefit of nonskip persons.
Use generation-skipping flexibility with care
Mr Richardson's skip which is able to carry almost 50 per cent more waste -up to 11.
Manufacturing: New design raises industry benchmark
Technique: Moving laterally, perform a skip on the far foot, then a straight leg kick over the near edge of the hurdle, followed immediately by a skip on the near foot and a straight leg kick with the far leg.
Dynamic warm-up/flexibility
The newest loan, PaymentPower[TM] Mortgage, allows qualified homeowners to skip up to two monthly payments per year and up to 10 payments over the life of their loan.
Countrywide offers payment-flexibility mortgages. (Business Alert)
If an outright gift to a skip person qualifies for the annual exclusion, the GST tax does not apply to that gift.
Iceberg ahead! Navigating the murky waters of gift-tax-return preparation
Skip was greater than the sum of all the positive descriptors in the English language, and there are no words to adequately describe what he meant to all of us at the Bureau.
Skip Martin, 1935-2000
Questions include why they skip school and whether they have committed crimes while out of school.
Police Eliminating Truancy: A PET Project
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