keep one's hands off
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An attitude of positive urbanity toward life was not to be expected; it was doing one's duty to hold one's tongue and keep one's hands off one's own windpipe, and other people's.
From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry
Alphonse and Maxime now recognise that it's best to leave Mr. Flack alone, hard as it is to keep one's hands off him.
From The Reverberator by James, Henry
Learning how to paint, in having nothing that one so longs to paint as to be unable to keep one's hands off it.
From Ex Voto by Butler, Samuel
The thing to do, I suppose, is to keep one’s hands off milk.
From The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways by Penrose, Margaret
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