guardar las distancias

Spanish

Verb

guardar las distancias (first-person singular present guardo las distancias, first-person singular preterite guardé las distancias, past participle guardado las distancias)

1. (idiomatic) to keep one's distance

Further reading

• “guardar las distancias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10