watch one's step

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watch one's step (third-person singular simple present watches one's step, present participle watching one's step, simple past and past participle watched one's step)

To move cautiously.
(idiomatic) To be cautious.
- 1944 May and June, “In the Critics' Den”, in Railway Magazine, page 132:
  We congratulate our correspondents on some very cogent reasoning, and shall have to watch our step even more carefully in future!

Translations

to move cautiously

Chinese:
Mandarin: 走路 (zh) (zǒulù)小心 (zh) (xiǎoxīn)
Finnish: katsoa eteensä
French: regarder devant soi, faire attention où l’on marche
Greek: προσέχω πού πατάω (prosécho poú patáo)
Hungarian: a lába elé néz

to be cautious

Chinese:
Mandarin: 谨慎 (zh) (jǐnshèn)行事 (zh) (xíngshì)
Finnish: katsoa eteensä
French: faire attention (fr), être prudent

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