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give a wide berth |
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give someone/something a wide berth to avoid someone or something. I try to give the city centre a wide berth on a Saturday. If she's in a bad mood I tend to give her a wide berth. give someone/something a wide berth to keep far away from someone or something. He believes that his neighbors give him a wide berth because he is black. Usage notes: sometimes used in the form give a wide berth to something: Consumers continued to give wide berth to shopping malls last month |
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Haul oil, Master Bumppo, haul off, I say, and give a wide berth to the seine. He was now in German East Africa and it was his intention to skirt the mountains west of Kilimanjaro, whose rugged peaks he was quite willing to give a wide berth, and then swing eastward along the south side of the range to the railway that led to Tanga, for his experience among men suggested that it was toward this railroad that German troops would be likely to converge. |
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give a wide berth
