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keep at bay |
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keep something/someone at bay to prevent something or someone unpleasant from coming too near you or harming you. If we can keep the rabbits at bay, we should have a good crop of vegetables in the garden. For me, overeating is a way of keeping my feelings at bay. keep someone at bay to prevent someone from moving closer. He held the police at bay with a gun for several hours. keep something at bay to control something and prevent it from causing you problems. She fought to keep her unhappiness at bay. In the garden, there's no security system to keep the rabbits at bay. Experts hope the economy will slow enough to keep inflation at bay. |
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Attaching and following a human is the one way she can keep at bay the blackness and cold that threaten to envelop her. All this is bound to introduce rigidities that would keep at bay the growth processes that work through a shift of resources from a set of activities in one region to another set of activities in another region. Both were diagnosed with autism when they were just 22 months old, and they each spend several hours a week in physical, social and speech therapy to keep at bay the silent withdrawal often associated with the disease. |
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