skip over

“Much of the discussion tended to skip over the enormous stake the United States had in the situation, or the ramifications of the aggression on the emerging postCold War world.”

Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

“L3:; loop here to eat empty lines, leading blanks CALL SKIP_BLANKS; skip over the leading blanks of a line INC SI; advance source ptr beyond the next non-blank JHASH L3; if hash sign then process, and eat more blanks CMP AL,0A; were the blanks terminated by a linefeed?”

DOCUMENTATION: A86 Assembler Package by Eric Isaacson Chapter 11

“To such however as do not choose to go so far back into these things, I can give no better advice than that they skip over the remaining part of this chapter; for I declare before-hand,”

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman