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easy does it

Idioms  
  1. Go carefully, don't hurry, as in That chest is heavy, so easy does it. [1920s] Also see go easy.


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I feel more comfortable when I can tell myself to just relax and take it easy, easy does it.

From Reuters ● Jun. 27, 2012

Remember easy does it, and don't be pushing your jokes too far.

From One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

No lamb could come milder than Godby, aye lambs, doves and babes is roaring lions compared wi' Godby—so easy does it.

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

"Nay, easy does it," says he, never budging, "for if 'twas the folly of vengeance brought ye in the peccadille, 'twas your comrade Adam Penfeather got ye out again—so easy all!"

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

So entirely different was the ocean world, therefore, from what it is to-day, and so easy does it become to form wrong ideas concerning old-time war and peace on sea and land.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard

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