to stay out of trouble
48
3.2
- phrasal verb
:
no meterse en problemas
- We need more places teenagers can go to stay out of trouble.
- try to stay out of trouble
- help someone stay out of trouble
- manage to stay out of trouble
And so I kind of just navigated through the rest of my my childhood years trying to stay out of trouble.
- And so I kind of just navigated through the rest of my my childhood years trying to stay out of trouble.
- Curtis is a Hall of Fame NFL footballer and he only started playing football basically to stay out of trouble.
- There's be prizes and reminding you guys just to be healthy, stay out of trouble, help your fellow man, take it easy on yourselves.
- For example, you need justice to stay out of trouble so that you won't be worried and disturbed by fears of getting caught.
Examples
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As long as we stay out of trouble, I guess it's okay.
Fiction book (1998) -
Yeah, just trying to ride things out, you know, stay out of trouble.
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Stay safe, stay out of trouble, but have a good time, OK?
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Try and stay out of trouble, D.
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But you gotta stay out of trouble.
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Can you stay out of trouble?
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Try and stay out of trouble.
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Go someplace where you can stay out of trouble.
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I warned Raul to stay out of trouble.
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If you want to keep your job, you should really stay out of trouble with your boss.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To stay away from something or not do it to stop something bad from happening
582
3.0
To be careful to avoid danger or trouble
384
2.3
Avoid going near people or places for safety
56
3.8
To avoid getting involved in an argument or fight
34
4.0
To stay away from people and things that may cause trouble or harm
Antonyms
How Risky
200
2.6
56
3.2
42
3.4
48
3.2
36
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to avoid getting involved in problems' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'stay' (remain) with the spatial/negative sense 'out of' (not in) and 'trouble' (problems). This is a transparent compositional pattern (stay + out of + noun) found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Stay out of trouble gives a clear picture: imagine someone walking around a place called trouble, choosing to stay out of it instead of going in. So it means 'to avoid getting into problems'.