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!
See also: back, stay

stay back

v.
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.
See also: back, stay

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Oved-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
AimoIE-mo Finnish
EdgarED-gər (English), ed-GAHR (French)English, French
Zabel-Armenian
Boyles[bɔilz]
Doncho-Bulgarian, Macedonian