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Stand back

verb

Stay clear of, avoid. Synonyms: keep one's distance, keep one's eyes off, keep one's hands off, stay away. "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous"

Stand away from an object or person.

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"Stand back" Quotes from Famous Books

... women are deprived of political rights, there are other rights which no law prevents. We can take our rights as merchants and in other avocations, by investing our capital in them; but we stand back and wait till it is popular for us to become merchants, doctors, lecturers, or practitioners of the mechanic arts. I know girls who have mechanical genius sufficient to become Arkwrights and Fultons, but their mothers would not apprentice them. Which of the women of ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... "Stand back," commanded The Hopper, "an' stop callin' names! I guess ef I'm yanked fer this I ain't th' only one that's goin' t' do time ...

— A Reversible Santa Claus • Meredith Nicholson

... "at nine o'clock this mornin' this place ceased to be Tom Belcher's sto', an' become a court of justice. Some things are seemly in a court, some not. You stand back there!" ...

— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

... the Marquis, "let the officer stand back. I want to ask what the Baron really did say when he let this man ...

— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton

... Ariel was first, and Benjamin was by my side. He motioned impatiently to both of them to stand back, and to let me ...

— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins

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