See stay in one's lane on Wiktionary
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{ "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Italian translations" ], "etymology_text": "Metaphoric, from the conventions for driving a motor vehicle.", "forms": [ { "form": "stays in one's lane", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "staying in one's lane", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "stayed in one's lane", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "stayed in one's lane", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "stay in one's lane (third-person singular simple present stays in one's lane, present participle staying in one's lane, simple past and past participle stayed in one's lane)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "know one's place" }, { "word": "neoracism" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English idioms", "English informal terms", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2015, Daniel Steverson, The Blackening White, page 30:", "text": "There are those who try to outlive their means while others just stay in their lane. Some of us are used to being broke, having less […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1999, Nelson George, Hip Hop America, page 84:", "text": "That's because this place is racist, but also because most black filmmakers don't have an interest in integrating. They've accepted the premise that they must stay in their lane […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To keep to one's own kind; to avoid intermixing or associating with other types of people." ], "links": [ [ "intermix", "intermix" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic, informal) To keep to one's own kind; to avoid intermixing or associating with other types of people." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic", "informal" ] }, { "categories": [ "English idioms", "English informal terms" ], "glosses": [ "To mind one's own business." ], "links": [ [ "mind one's own business", "mind one's own business" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic, informal) To mind one's own business." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic", "informal" ] } ], "translations": [ { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "keep to one's own kind", "word": "stare al proprio posto" } ], "word": "stay in one's lane" }
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