stand between
Verb
Meaning
stand between (third-person singular simple present stands between, present participle standing between, simple past and past participle stood between)
To block or be a barrier to (someone or something).
Synonyms
Examples
People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. I see evil around me every day.
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.
Though frontiers and mountains stand between us, Proletarians of the whole world come together as one family.
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.