Assigned or appropriate position. to keep quarter: to keep one's own place. to hold quarter with: to remain beside. quarter of assembly: a point of…

intransitive. To avoid or shun society.

to have nothing to say to (also with): to have no dealings with; (of things) to have no connection with or influence or bearing on. Also to have some…

to live in (also within) oneself: to keep one's own company or counsel; to rely upon oneself for occupation and diversion. Obsolete.

To confine or restrict oneself to. to keep to oneself, also (colloquial) to keep oneself to oneself, to avoid the society of others.

to fight shy: perhaps originally to lose confidence in battle; recorded only in the sense: To keep aloof, avoid intercourse with a person, evade an…

to cultivate one's (own) garden: to attend to one's own affairs.

Originally U.S. to hoe one's own row: to do one's own work; to make one's own way without help.