if rain or snow keeps off, it does not fall, although you expected it to
to avoid a particular type of food or drink
to avoid mentioning a particular subject in a conversation
to not go onto a particular area of land
to not touch something, or to prevent something from touching something
Dogs must be kept off the beach.
I’m trying to keep off fatty foods.
Keep him off politics, for goodness sake.
Keep off the grass.
Keep the flies off the food.
Keep your hands off! It’s mine.
keeps off
keeping off
kept off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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