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
Ping	-	Chinese
Eseld	-	Cornish
Keri	KER-ee	English
Megan	MEG-ən (English)	Welsh, English
Aputsiaq	-	Native American, Greenlandic
Coby	KO-bee	English