When a couple is at a club, or in a public place, and are obviously avoiding each other, wether they know it or not.
Another example is, When boy friend & girl frienddon't talk to each other at school, or make other people believe they aren't even going out.
"oh wow look jimmy is acting so stand offish towards jenn, it's like they don't even like each other."
Someone that wasn't friendly with Louis XIII would always bark about/threaten with beatdown this or reserving the right to beat his ass that, always getting standoffish with him if they even thought he was going to do something they didn't like whether he had done it yet or hadn't (which doing something somebody doesn't like should give someone else the right to kill you, and nobody likes getting threats from an instigator, so nothing works out and no deals/compromises are made between the two unfriendly parties).