keep one's hands off

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The thing to do, I suppose, is to keep one’s hands off milk.

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An attitude of positive urbanity toward life was not to be expected; it was doing one's duty to hold one's tongue and keep one's hands off one's own windpipe, and other people's.

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Alphonse and Maxime now recognise that it's best to leave Mr. Flack alone, hard as it is to keep one's hands off him.

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Learning how to paint, in having nothing that one so longs to paint as to be unable to keep one's hands off it.

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Small likewise—a name by which I refer to another party, a friend of mine that your ladyship is not acquainted with—got to be so close and double-faced that at times it wasn't easy to keep one's hands off his 'ead. 

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