on the safe side

1. Avoiding danger, with a margin for error, as in Just to be on the safe side, let's order another hundred chairs. This idiom was first recorded in 1811.

Example Sentences

“I’m seeing scores of people that I had relationships with a generation ago coming back just to be on the safe side,” says Michael Wildes, an immigration lawyer and managing partner at law firm Wildes and Weinberg.

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“Transportation is the one thing that keeps the world running. … We’re on the safe side.”

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Just to be on the safe side, Takeo also has a bug-free menu.

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So to be on the safe side, it would be advisable to avoid raw milk products.

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Jones has been cleared to return after a wreck at Talladega resulted in a compression fracture in his back, but the team opted to hold him out for one more week to be on the safe side.

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