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keep your . . .
Idioms and Phrases
see under keep one's .Example Sentences
She'd be hopeless in a sick-room; and this is a real keep-your-distance, Sundays-only sick-room, ain't it, Sarah Gamp?
We did not answer even then, though I think it was less from keep-your-wordishness than amazement.
Then at a later keep-your-distance hint she gaily held out a hand to him and teased him by eluding his grasp.
He was a Puritan of the “trust-in-God-and-keep-your-powder-dry” species.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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