keep at arm's length

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Roget 289: repel, push from, drive apart, drive from etc. 276; chase, dispel; retrude^†; abduce^†, abduct; send away; repulse.    keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder; send off, send away with a flea in one's ear.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 893: be secluded, live secluded etc. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux [Fr.]; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon etc. 624; sport one's oak [Slang].    cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.    depopulate; dispeople^†, unpeople^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 895: be rude etc. adj.; insult etc. 929; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush.    cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.    lose one's temper etc. (resentment) 900; sulk etc. 901.1; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.    render rude etc. adj.; brutalize, brutify^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 889: be inimical etc. adj.; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice etc. 907; fall out; take umbrage etc. 900; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.    [not friendly, but not hostile]. (indifference). 866.    ... meer laten zien

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