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So literally, on thin ice means you are standing on ice that is too thin to support your weight (and you're most likely to fall through the ice). Idioms use figurative meanings of course—so on thin ice means being in a risky, dangerous or uncertain situation. Sentence examples — Don't raise your voice to me young man!
1. Lit. on ice that is too thin to support one. (See also skate on thin ice; walk on thin ice.) Billy is on thin ice and is in great danger. 2. Fig. in a risky situation. If you try that you'll really be on thin ice. That's too risky. If you don't want to find yourself on thin ice, you must be sure of your facts. See also: ice, on, thin.
Inglés. Español. walk on thin ice, skate on thin ice, be on thin ice v expr. figurative (take a risk) (figurado) pisar terreno pantanoso loc verb. Note: Commonly used in the continuous. You're walking on thin ice if you keep insulting Katie.
Hace 2 días · on thin ice. phrase. If you say that someone is on thin ice or is skating on thin ice, you mean that they are doing something risky which may have serious or unpleasant consequences . I had skated on thin ice and, so far, got away with it. See full dictionary entry for ice. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
When we say someone is “on thin ice”, it means they are in a precarious situation where one wrong move could have serious consequences. Some synonyms for this idiom include walking a tightrope, skating on thin ice, treading on dangerous ground, and playing with fire.
on thin ice, to be/skate. A hazardous course of action or conversation. “In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay Prudence (1841). Literally, it is possible to skate over very thin ice without breaking through if one glides quickly enough, but Emerson was already using the expression figuratively.
In a precarious or risky position, as in After failing the midterm, he was on thin ice with his math teacher . This metaphor is often rounded out as skate on thin ice , as in He knew he was skating on thin ice when he took his rent money with him to the racetrack .
