"Skating on thin ice" nghĩa là gì?

Cẩn thận nha hai đứa! Photo courtesy: Jerome's point of view

"Skating on thin ice" = trượt trên băng mỏng -> nghĩa là hành động đang làm rất nguy hiểm, nhiều rủi ro có thể dẫn đến thảm họa hoặc kết quả không tốt.

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Amanda decided to skate on thin ice by quitting her day job to pursue her passion of wildlife photography.

“It’s been critical (the passing of the ordinance (sắc lệnh)),” Limb said. “We were skating on thin ice before the ordinance was passed. I don’t think Havurah or the Presbyterian Church would have come on board if it hadn’t been for the ordinance. It was marvelous the way that happened.”

Despite the vast interest from the student population at the campus – juggling (tung hứng) between their academic aspirations and recreation (câu lạc bộ) – this particular sporting discipline is financially skating on thin ice because of insufficient funding from all sectors of the mainstream economy.

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