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keep one's nose clean

To stay out of trouble, especially by avoiding unlawful behavior.
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Submitted on July 07, 2010

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keep one's headkeep pacekeep one's mouth shutkeep one's coolkeep quietkeep one's head downkeep one's pants onkeep one's head above waterkeep one's cards close to one's chestkeep out ofkeep one's eyes peeledkeep pacekeep one's options openkeep one's chin up

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