watch one's step

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watch one's step (third-person singular simple present watches one's step, present participle watching one's step, simple past and past participle watched one's step)

  1. To move cautiously.
  2. (idiomatic) To be cautious.
    • 1944 May and June, “In the Critics' Den”, in Railway Magazine, page 132:
      We congratulate our correspondents on some very cogent reasoning, and shall have to watch our step even more carefully in future!

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