stay out of sth
— phrasal verb with stay uk/steɪ/us/steɪ/verb
C2 to not become involved in an argument or discussion:
It's better to stay out of their arguments.
You don't know anything about this, so just stay out of it!
More examples
- It's really for Mark and Julia to sort out between them - I'd stay out of it if I were you.
- I have two colleagues who are often arguing and I just try to stay out of it.
- When my mum and dad argue I try to stay out of it.
- He hates it when they fight - he always tries to stay out of it.
- This has got nothing to do with you - just stay out of it!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- otherwise
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
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