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stand guard
Idioms and Phrases
Watch over, act as a lookout, as in We'll climb the tree and get the apples if Josh will stand guard , or There's a parking space; stand guard while I make a U-turn and get to it . This term alludes to the military defense of posting guards to watch for the enemy.Example Sentences
Police officers and military personnel stood guard around the protesters.
He said his mental health deteriorated after a Taliban soldier dropped a "cooked" grenade into a checkpoint that Luke had been standing guard at just hours earlier.
He said he felt vulnerable and exposed as he stood guard at the crime scene and waited for back up from police colleagues.
That is why he ended his speech by calling on the American people “to stand guard†over our democracy and be “the keeper of the flame.â€
“Now it’s your turn to stand guard. May you all be the keeper of the flame. May you keep the faith,†he ended.
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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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