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What does keep at arm's length mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word keep at arm's length? Here's what it means.

Phrase
  1. Stay at a distance, away from one's body.
  2. (idiomatic) Avoid a close relationship.
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Most of them are run as charitable trusts and usually they keep at arm's length, leaving the artistic decisions to the people in the know.
Dialogues between experts will produce only more agreed statements, which the churches will also keep at arm's length.
Reporters and photographers in Afghanistan, trained to keep at arm's length from the authorities, have come across documents left behind by fleeing Al Qaeda operatives.
The great criminal and the humorist compel our interest by the narcissistic self-importance with which they manage to keep at arm's length everything which would diminish the importance of their ego.
One potential casualty of the new hair test is Vice President George Saitoti, a man whom Mr. Moi seems determined to keep at arm's length.
That is something which ministers will be anxious to keep at arm's length, though again this has been due to efforts to hit a government target for the number of young people starting apprenticeships this year.

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