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stand back

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stand back (from someone or something)
to stand or move well away and to the rear of someone or something. Stand back from Sam. He is really angry. Would you please stand back from the edge?
See also: back, stand


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So he called aloud that he whom he should choose, and who would stand back to back with him in the fray, if victory were theirs, should be the first after him among the People of the Axe, and as he called, he walked slowly down the line scanning the faces of all, till he came to where Galazi stood leaning on the Watcher.
“Fair play, Billy Kirby—stand back—make ‘em stand back, boys—gib a nigger fair play—poss-up, - gobbler; shake a head, fool; don’t you see
It's lucky he couldn't get fur into the church and had to stand back by the door, for as it was, he made a spectacle of himself.
 
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