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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 • Oct. 22, 2025

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 The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

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