keep your distance
to avoid going near someone or something, or to avoid getting too friendly with people:
I've tried being friendly but she keeps her distance.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separateness and isolation in space
- apart
- atomistic
- atomized
- bitty
- cloistered
- distance
- distance yourself from sth
- divorced
- freely
- give sth/sb a wide berth idiom
- hermetically sealed
- loose
- parted
- privacy
- private
- purdah
- secluded
- uninhabited
- untethered
- wide
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