to let someone else have your job or position
to move to one side in order to let someone go past you
to not involve yourself in a situation, especially one that you should be trying to prevent
Are you just going to stand aside and let that kind of thing happen?
Ed should be given a good run at the job, but if he fails to make headway he should stand aside and let others take their chance.
France and Germany would not simply stand aside and let Britain get its own way.
He stood aside to let me pass.
I don't think we can stand aside and let that happen.
It might be standing aside to let somebody pass, instead of barging past them.
She stood aside to let a strange young man come into the room.
Stand aside and let me go.
The three stood aside to let her enter.
The trade secretary has been asked to stand aside in favour of her deputy.
They quickly stood aside to let me pass.
This was music that stood aside from anything we had heard previously, not only in Manchester but anywhere.
We have sent a clear message: no dictator has the right to kill his people and we will not stand aside and let massacres take place.
Why did they stand aside and let it happen?
You can’t just stand aside and watch your colleagues being treated like that!
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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