"stay in one's lane" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: stays in one's lane [present, singular, third-person], staying in one's lane [participle, present], stayed in one's lane [participle, past], stayed in one's lane [past]
Etymology: Metaphoric, from the conventions for driving a motor vehicle. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} 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)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To keep to one's own kind; to avoid intermixing or associating with other types of people. Tags: idiomatic, informal Translations (keep to one's own kind): stare al proprio posto (Italian)
    Sense id: en-stay_in_one's_lane-en-verb-kCfwmXma Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of "keep to one's own kind": 82 18
  2. (idiomatic, informal) To mind one's own business. Tags: idiomatic, informal
    Sense id: en-stay_in_one's_lane-en-verb-fJTBDmGb
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: know one's place, neoracism

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2015, Daniel Steverson, The Blackening White, page 30",
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      "sense": "keep to one's own kind",
      "word": "stare al proprio posto"
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  "word": "stay in one's lane"
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