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A skirt! You probably know the word 'skirt' in English
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but do you know the other ways we use this word?
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'Skirt' means on the edge of something. So
the outskirts of town would be the parts
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just outside the border of the town, just
outside the limits. Those are the outskirts.
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Skirt steak. This is a cut of steak that comes
from the plate. That part of the cow. I admit,
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I'm not a butcher, I don't know much
about these things. But this word is
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plate and the skirt steak comes from the plate.
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But my favorite way to use the word means to
try to avoid, especially because of fear of
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controversy. We often use this with the
phrase to 'skirt the issue.' That means,
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if I ask you a question and you
don't really want to answer it,
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you're going to skirt the issue and try to
get your way around directly answering me.
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