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keep one's hands off
Idioms and Phrases
see hands off .Example Sentences
The thing to do, I suppose, is to keep one’s hands off milk.
An attitude of positive urbanity toward life was not to be expected; it was doing one's duty to hold one's tongue and keep one's hands off one's own windpipe, and other people's.
It's hard to keep one's hands off some of the professional tricksters.
Alphonse and Maxime now recognise that it's best to leave Mr. Flack alone, hard as it is to keep one's hands off him.
Learning how to paint, in having nothing that one so longs to paint as to be unable to keep one's hands off it.
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