🗓️ Idiom: Keep/Stay in Touch (verb phrase)
💬 Meaning
- To continue communicating with someone.
- To maintain contact after a meeting, event, or separation.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Let’s stay in touch after the conference ends.
- She moved abroad but kept in touch with her old colleagues.
- Please stay in touch so we can work together again in the future.
🏛️ Origin
The phrase comes from the physical idea of touch, meaning connection or closeness. Over time, it became a metaphor for keeping a personal or professional relationship active through communication.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
“Even after graduation, many students try to ______ in touch with their professors.”
Answer
stay
2. Multiple choice:
What does “keep/stay in touch” mean?
a) To physically hold someone’s hand
b) To continue communicating with someone
c) To follow someone on social media only
Answer
b) To continue communicating with someone
3. Change the sentence using “keep/stay in touch”:
Let’s continue to communicate after the project is finished.
Answer
Let’s stay in touch after the project is finished.
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