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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Keep at Arm's Length (To). To prevent another from being too familiar. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear. |
Enmity | Verb: be inimical; Adjective: keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice; fall out; take umbrage; harden the heart, alienate, estrange. |
Recession | Keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder; send off, send away with a flea in one's ear. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "KEEP AT ARM'S LENGTH": To keep at arm's length. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-a-e-e-e-g-h-k-l-m-n-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-5 letters: saltpetreman, saltpetremen. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 45 45 50 41 54 41 52 4D 27 53 4C 45 4E 47 54 48 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01000101 01000101 01010000 00100000 01000001 01010100 00100000 01000001 01010010 01001101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01001100 01000101 01001110 01000111 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K E E P   A T   A R M ' S   L E N G T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0045 0045 0050 0041 0054 0041 0052 004D 0027 0053 004C 0045 004E 0047 0054 0048 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)453939502355423552479532463948415442 |
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