keep your distance

Meaning

1. Oxford57% of films

   to make sure you are not too near sb / sth

   Spider-Man, keep your distance.

   He ll charge you but keep your distance and use your speed

2. Oxford43% of films

   to avoid getting too friendly or involved with a person, group, etc.

   You did everything you could to keep your distance.

   Just keep your distance.

In the movies · 11

• You did everything you could to keep your distance.Can You Ever Forgive Me?2018
• For now, we just keep our distance.The Peanuts Movie2015
• Spider-Man, keep your distance.Spider-Man: Far From Home2019
• Keep your distance.Creed2015
• Just keep your distance.The Way Way Back2013
• He ll charge you but keep your distance and use your speedTroy2004
• that you trying to keep your distance from me in no way lessens my affection for you.The Fault in Our Stars2014
• Keep your distance, Chewie, but don't look like you're keeping your distance.Return of the Jedi1983

Learn it in full scenes

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?2018
  • Lee Meets Jack Hock
  • Lee Asks to Be Paid in Cash
  • Lee Tells Jack Her Secret
• Creed2015
  • Adonis Asks Rocky to Train Him
  • Adonis and Bianca's First Date
  • Rocky Agrees to Train Adonis
• The Way Way Back2013
  • Trent Rates Duncan a Three
  • Betty Welcomes the New Neighbors
  • Dinner at Trent's Beach House

From the same entry

• at a distance
• go the distance
• in the distance
• keep at a distance
• within shouting distance
• within spitting distance
• within striking distance

More idioms

• see fit
• as it happens
• a matter of life and death
• it's a free country
• come and go
• to bits
• for better or worse
• give the creeps
• come first
• have it your own way
• any moment
• come close