step off
verb- To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers. · He measured the garden by stepping it off.
- To avoid a conflict; to back down. · You better step off, man...
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, off. · He stepped off the train.
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