steer clear of sb/sth
C2 to avoid someone or something that seems unpleasant, dangerous, or likely to cause problems:
Her speech steered clear of controversial issues.
They warned their children to steer clear of drugs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Avoiding action
- avoid
- avoid sth like the plague idiom
- avoidance
- bottle
- bottle out
- flinch
- flinch from sth/doing sth
- fudge
- get out of sth
- get-out clause
- insure
- shrink
- shy away from sth
- sit on your arse idiom
- skip out on sb/sth
- stand around
- stand by
- steer
- welch
- welsh
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