guardar las distancias

Spanish

Verb

guardar las distancias (first-person singular present guardo las distancias, first-person singular preterite guardé las distancias, past participle guardado las distancias)

1. (idiomatic) to keep one's distance

Further reading

• “guardar las distancias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16