(HAVE YOU BEEN) KEEPING OUT OF TROUBLE?

(Have you been) keeping out of trouble?: translation

(Have you) been keeping out of trouble? & (Have you been) keeping out of trouble? & You been keeping out of trouble?

Inf. a vague greeting asking one what one has been doing. •

Bob: Hi, Mary. Have you been keeping out of trouble? Mary: Yeah. And you? Bob: Oh, I'm getting by.

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Tom: Hey, man! Been keeping out of trouble? Bob: Hell, no! What are you up to? Tom: Nothing.