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steer clear

vb. (context idiomatic intransitive often followed by ''of'' English) To avoid; to dodge; to sidestep.

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Steer Clear

Steer Clear were a pop punk five piece band from Belfast, Northern Ireland that played gigs from 2005 to 2009.

Usage examples of "steer clear".

After that we can continue our journey, and we'll steer clear of forest fires after this.

The purpose has always been to warn ships to steer clear of the island and not to come ashore.

Yes, a bad place, said Fishgrabber, a kraken lair, ah, steer clear.

Several thousand miners, gamblers, gunmen, and outlaws made the place a good one to steer clear of.

But would it not rather steer clear of an island where there was no harbor.

They were backing their sails to try and steer clear of it, but the Civil Government warship pirouetted with the same swift-turning grace that its sister had shown in fleeing.

Rose just had time to notice it, to steer clear and be drenched by the spray, when she saw that a sudden little widening of the channel just below, where the current had eaten away the rocky bank at a spot where the rock was presumably softer, offered them the assistance of a back eddy in mooring.

It was necessary to steer clear of Scylla and yet not fall into Charybdis, said Hornblower to himself.