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Idioms and Phrases

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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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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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