stay back

stay back (from something)

to keep one's distance from someone or something. Stay back from the lawn mower! This is dangerous. Stay back!

1. To refrain from approaching. Used chiefly as a command: Stay back!—I've got a knife.

2. To repeat a grade level in school: The teacher suggested that our child stay back a year.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rozalia	-	Polish, Romanian
Benjy	BEN-jee	English
Aristocles	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Middleton	['midltən]
Love (1)	LOO-ve	Swedish
Koppel	-	Yiddish