Keep from catching it
Does this
“The flu is going around. In order to keep from catching it, you should gargle and wash your hands regularly”
Make sense? I’ve never heard. “In order to keep from catching it.” used in a sentence before.
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It's American idiom. I've never heard it in England.
Skeeter Lewis Jun-04-2015
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