at arm's length

at arm's length

• • 在手臂伸得到的地方；在伸臂可及之处；一臂之长
  • 疏远，(保持) 相当的距离，不亲近(常与 keep 连用)
  • 在伸手可及处，离身一臂远，以一臂之远
  • 保持一定距离地；在安全距离之外；相当远地，不友好
  • (在谈判、交易中)双方保留各自的主张，双方均不受对方控制地[见length]

• a thick head
• selective value
• process printing
• parthenomerogony
• loess kindchen
• relaxation circuit
• aquiline nose
• conning tower
• videodisk player
• knolls
• museologist
• Iguasú
• rank correlation
• microeconomics
• fly-kick
• glycogenesis
• tapetums
• stop the way
• friction pile
• Potter, Paul
• roll bonding
• freedom of/room for manoeuvre
• aquacises
• heavy-duty
• clunkers
• throttle pedal
• seriousminded
• ship of the desert
• know like a book
• scrollworks
• delay blasting cap
• steatoma
• bluebreasts
• fusicoccin
• hot isostatic pressing
• in cahoot s with
• gray pine
• baldrics
• hot-wire instrument
• run one's head against a stone wall
• tumble-dried
• sixtieths
• circular form tool
• Spanish influenza
• genital dise
• palaestra
• vinyl-guarded
• devoutly
• create sb sth
• needlecrafts
• prognosis
• oilman
• checkweighman
• hydrogen iodide
• buhlwork
• jelly bomb
• cabin boys
• dedifferentiate
• Harker sections
• kero
• prudent
• misappropriation
• achieving
• bomb calorimeters
• step-on
• euphony
• fourgons
• finishing
• bronchopneumonia
• drink till all's blue
• wormling
• inversion
• sweepstake
• archivists
• atrocities
• ranched
• civil deaths
• return difference
• feed on
• jeremiad
• premedian
• stating
• bleaters
• amperometry
• accommodation notes
• reticulopodia
• see someone/thing out of（或 from） the corner of one's eye
• Sackville, Thomas, lst Earl of Dorset
• socioeconomically
• lazy daisy stitches
• ghostings
• azollaceaes
• mounting
• disorderly houses
• noodlings
• central gear
• overpotting
• gain high respect
• gangbar
• closet homosexual