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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Example Sentences

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

From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2012

"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 Farnol, Jeffery

"All right, old top, all right; easy does it."

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

"Then easy does it, lads!" says Godby, no whit abashed.

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Farnol, Jeffery

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 Stoddard, W. O.