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on the safe side
Idioms and Phrases
Avoiding danger, with a margin for error, as in Just to be on the safe side, let's order another hundred chairs . This idiom was first recorded in 1811.Example Sentences
“Transportation is the one thing that keeps the world running. … We’re on the safe side.”
Just to be on the safe side, Takeo also has a bug-free menu.
So to be on the safe side, it would be advisable to avoid raw milk products.
Jones has been cleared to return after a wreck at Talladega resulted in a compression fracture in his back, but the team opted to hold him out for one more week to be on the safe side.
“I felt we didn’t get enough time to think about it and read up on it. So I felt, to be on the safe side, ‘no, no’ — no change.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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