on one's guard
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“Nature here is so strong that one has to be on one’s guard to not be absorbed by it,” wrote Dodge.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023
It has sniffed at such examples as "directives" for orders, "alerted" for being put on one's guard, "dis-O.K." for withdrawing approval, "deactivate" for abolishing.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in view of this fact one must be on one's guard against confusing a logical transformation of concepts with a genealogical development.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by O'Harra, Edwin V.
He who reads as reflectively as he should will soon find out that philosophers "call names" much as other men do, and that one should always be on one's guard.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart
One should be on one's guard, however, against accepting readily any motive assigned.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
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