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watch one's step

Idioms  

  1. Exercise caution, as in You'd better watch your step talking to them about a merger. Often put as an admonition, this phrase transfers taking care in walking to other kinds of caution. [First half of 1900s]

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It seems that there is still an acute need to watch one’s step.

From The Wall Street Journal

Written as an emotionally charged thriller, "The Betrayal" unfolds breathlessly and with great skill; you become tense while reading it, sensing the impact of a life in which one must constantly watch one's step for fear of being noticed by the authorities, always being careful, never losing control.

From Seattle Times

I don’t 224 know whether it’s Struthers, or Struthers and Gershom combined, or having to watch one’s step so when there are children about one.

From Project Gutenberg

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