"step away from the X"

[James Harbeck]

Here's a lately popular idiom, started by "Step away from the
vehicle," I'm pretty sure. "Step away from the Blackberry" gets 158
Google hits all by itself. If you search just "step away from the"
you get nealry a million hits; some of the ones on the first couple
of pages are graffiti, cold medicine, keyboard, spell-checker (yay
for that one!), social media release, PC, mousse (with your hands
up), shovel, podium, Gatt chart, jokes, computer, and tofu burger.

James Harbeck.

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