WATCH ONE'S STEP Definition & Meaning

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Exercise caution, as in You'd better watch your step talking to them about a merger . Often put as an admonition, this phrase transfers taking care in walking to other kinds of caution. [First half of 1900s]

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Written as an emotionally charged thriller, "The Betrayal" unfolds breathlessly and with great skill; you become tense while reading it, sensing the impact of a life in which one must constantly watch one's step for fear of being noticed by the authorities, always being careful, never losing control.

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I don’t 224 know whether it’s Struthers, or Struthers and Gershom combined, or having to watch one’s step so when there are children about one.

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