Idiom
At arm's length.
If something is at arm's length, it is a safe distance waway from you.
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8.38am BST Britain's former ambassador to Iraq, Sir William Patey, has predicted some form of "arm's length" co-operation between the West and Iran in the fight against Isis in Iraq.
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"I wanted to create a level of arm's-length mystique," he said.
As compared to arm's-length contracting, a vertically integrated firm can more readily realize efficiencies in the form of lower costs or improved quality, conditions that greatly benefit customers of the firm.
Instead of producing arm's-length, ostensibly objective journalism, Amy becomes a personal essayist, a memoirist.
Much is held at the arm's-length distance of black and white.
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We were at the forefront of the fight for women's suffrage in the late 19th century, we developed new forms of public institutions at arm's length from executive government, and gave the world the "Australian ballot".
After decades of keeping at arm's length from the program, he re-emerged this season.
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