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watch it

Idioms  
  1. Also, watch out. Be careful, as in Watch it as you go down that ladder, or Watch out, there are a lot of cars on this road. The first term dates from the early 1900s, the variant from the mid-1800s. Also see look out.


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The show’s continued presence in our minds and living rooms has become almost a self-fulfilling prophecy: you watch it because it’s familiar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"I could only watch it once," Valerie says.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Fielder persuades Holmes to watch it for the first time, on a laptop in the couple’s bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Told by her son that he only had one extra ticket, she said: “Then I can’t go. I’ll watch it on TV.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Power has become so subtle and complex a thing in the ways taken by the Ekumen that only a subtle mind can watch it work; here it is still limited, still visible.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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