"stay in one's lane" meaning in English

{
  "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": [
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "word": "know one's place"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "word": "neoracism"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
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          "_dis": "85 15",
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      "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-stay_in_one's_lane-en-verb-kCfwmXma",
      "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"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "82 18",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "keep to one's own kind",
          "word": "stare al proprio posto"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To mind one's own business."
      ],
      "id": "en-stay_in_one's_lane-en-verb-fJTBDmGb",
      "links": [
        [
          "mind one's own business",
          "mind one's own business"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To mind one's own business."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stay in one's lane"
}

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    "Terms with Italian translations"
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  "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": [
    {
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        "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"
}