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skip it

do not worry about it a€?Why is New York called the Empire State?a€? a€?What did you say?a€? a€?Skip it - it's not important.a€?

Related vocabulary: never mind (somebody/something)

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of skip something (to not have or do something)

See also: skip

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]

See also: skip