“at arm’s length”
remember there was a stupid theme that was spouted right after NYE where the women were told to keep the moslems at arms length and then they wouldn’t get raped...
it was the women’s fault because they got too close...or some such idiocy...
this # was invented in a German website etc at that time due to that idiocy...
Ah hah. Thank you. (Told you I cannot read German :)