steer clear of

“This is getting positively dramatic! Don’t worry, Miss Lumley, I’ll be careful and steer clear of constables. Besides, I’ve a new friend who’s a judge, remember? If that can’t keep a fellow out of the lockup, nothing can.”

All the same, Barron’s has warned investors to steer clear of these complicated and volatile investment options in the past.

Yet for as much as “Train Dreams” speaks to present-day ills — the filmmakers had to steer clear of a real wildfire while staging one of their own — Bentley and Kwedar are not pessimists by nature and their films could never be described as despairing, especially when it comes to human beings.

The warning to Republicans in Tuesday’s election results is that Democrats are turning the tables on affordability, especially when they steer clear of leftist cultural snares.

To prepare residents for the influx of police, community organizations shared on social media a list of best practices: Avoid making eye contact with law enforcement, don’t argue in public and steer clear of highly patrolled areas.