Skirt it under the rug

A Kamala Harris supporter was discussing how Harris is actually tough on border control:

Clark Willits — a supporter from California who drove nine hours to attend the event and then waited outside in the heat for five hours to get inside — dismissed the attacks from the right on Harris’s immigration record.

“I think she can’t skirt it under the rug, so to speak, but I don’t think she has much to worry about when it comes to immigration,” he said. “I believe in her, and I know that she will pass immigration reform, because she takes those matters very seriously as a multiracial individual herself.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/harris-walz-border-immigration-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzIzMjYyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI0NjQ0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjMyNjI0MDAsImp0aSI6ImNjMzJhMjZjLTQ4YjItNGU2Ni1hM2JiLTUwZTM2NDU5ZTE5NiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzA4LzEwL2hhcnJpcy13YWx6LWJvcmRlci1pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi10cnVtcC8ifQ.FRYQNHGuNNda2PgiLMHAlZE4KTUCJeTm6EVb94R70Ek

This is a congruent conflation of “skirt around (someone or something)” and “sweep (something) under the rug”, both meaning to avoid or evade something. Shout out to John Costello and Tom Justice for both spotting this one in the Washington Post and sending it in! Good eyes!