yard
An open space with grass or ground next to a house or building.
An open piece of ground, often covered with grass, that is next to or surrounding a house or other building.
A measure of length equal to 3 feet or about 91 centimeters.
A unit of length in the US and UK customary systems equal to 3 feet or 0.9144 meters.
An outdoor place with a fence or walls, used for work or storage.
An enclosed outdoor area used for a particular purpose such as storing goods, keeping animals, or working on vehicles.
A long pole on a ship's mast that holds a sail.
A horizontal spar attached to a ship's mast from which sails are set.
- Base: yard
- Plural: yards
stick to your own backyard
1Mind your own business or area of concern
To focus on your own work or problems instead of other people’s.
- You should stick to your own backyard and stop telling me how to run my life.
- Critics told him to stick to his own backyard and not get involved in foreign politics.
three yards and a cloud of dust
1Small steady gains with hard work (esp. football)
A way to say that progress is slow but steady, especially in American football when a team gains just a few yards each play.
- Our project is moving like three yards and a cloud of dust—slow but steady.
- The team kept pushing forward, three yards and a cloud of dust at a time.
yard sale
1Outdoor sale of household items at home
A sale outside someone's home where they sell things they do not want anymore.
- We’re having a yard sale this Saturday morning.
- She bought an old lamp at a neighborhood yard sale.