stand aside
Verb
Meaning
To step sideways to make a space for someone else.
Stand aside, please, so the doctor can get through.
To resign a job or position voluntarily so that someone else can have it instead.
Synonym: stand down
It's time he stood aside and let a more qualified person do the job.
To temporarily recuse oneself from action or decision-making in some domain.
Synonym: stand down
The minister will stand aside during the investigation.
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I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside ... but I will never ever again come back.
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.