stay in one's lane

verb

Etymology

Metaphoric, from the conventions for driving a motor vehicle.

Definitions

  1. To keep to one's own kind

    To keep to one's own kind; to avoid intermixing or associating with other types of people.

    • 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 […]
    • 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 […]
  2. To mind one's own business.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stay in one's lane. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA