keep one's hands off
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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 Samuel Butler
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 Henry James
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 Henry James
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 Margaret Penrose
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