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Meanings of keep at arm in English
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Usage of keep at arm in English
1
Everything one tries to keep at arm's length hurts one.
2
I can't keep at arm's length for ever.
3
For one thing, he is a bastard whom the duc d'Arcachon prefers to keep at arm's length.
4
Acquaintances we keep at arm's length.
5
It was one of those thoughts one had to fight down, keep at arm's length at any cost.
6
And all others that may come and woo thee, do thou keep at arm's length until I return.'
7
Wen's comments left little doubt that China wanted to keep at arm's length possible Western demands for stiffer sanctions.
8
She is a magnet for all the rightwing oddballs whom most Tory MPs try to keep at arm's length.
9
You try to keep at arm's length and you try as hard as you can, but you can't, he says.
10
He was gruff, but this gruffness was simply a mask to keep at arm's length those persons whom he did not desire for friends.
11
The in-laws, Chris, and the children are kept at arm's length.
12
Martin Bukaty was not the first man whom he had kept at arm's-length.
13
Thus had I been kept at arm's length with repeated rebuffs.
14
For decades, children of alleged communists were kept at arm's length by the government.
15
The war is being kept at arm's length for the duration of our short stopover.
16
But Delamere kept at arm's length from some of the internal ructions in his party.