watch one's step

English

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Verb

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)

1. To move cautiously.
2. (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