Meaning of skate one's lane | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To play in one's assigned position rather than straying to the location of the current action.
2. To mind one's own business; focus on one's own goals and tasks and not worry about what others are doing.
   broadly, idiomatic

Examples

“Wings should skate their lanes and not go roaming about the ice.”

“When the three-on-two situation develops, coming out of your own end, it is best to work the puck to the middle, where the center should be skating his lane.”

“Their coach, Ray Preston, was a screamer; he yelled at them to cover their man or skate their lanes.”

“Well, yes, but they're also human beings, fathers, sons, brothers, cousins, uncles and friends. Role players have to skate their lanes off the ice, too.”

“Failing to do so could spell disaster. After all, if skin care for tweens is truly a good business idea, it wouldn’t take long for one or two of the big players that have been watching from the sidelines to tap those customers that Christy is slow to reach, and eventually push her out of the picture. She knows all this, of course, and for now is skating her lane.”

“Pareene is right. "Dangerous Donald" is stupid and childish. You are not going to out-stupid and/or out-childish He, Trump. Nobody can do that, not even incredibly stupid children. Skate your lane, Clinton people. Yeesh.”

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