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taking to ones heelsrunning awayRate it:

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watch it buddyBe careful. Often used in GTARate it:

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watch your mouthdon't swear; admonition mainly addressed to youth when they occasionally became profane, loud, boisterous, or engaged in vulgarities.Rate it:

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watch one's stepTo move cautiously.Rate it:

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watch overTo guard and protect.Rate it:

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keep a close watch onTo pay careful attention to a situation or a thing, so that you can deal with any changes or problems.Rate it:

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keep a close watchto pay careful attention to a situation or a thing, so that you can deal with any changes or problems.Rate it:

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keep watchTo guard; to watch over someone or something.Rate it:

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neighbourhood watchIn Britain, a local crime-prevention scheme. Under police supervision, groups of residents agree to increase watchfulness in order to prevent crimes such as burglary and vandalism in their area.Rate it:

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on one's watchDuring the period of time when one is in a position of authority or responsibility.Rate it:

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time you got a watchA phrase used to reply to the question what time is it?.Rate it:

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watch itTo be careful or cautious; to pay attention to what one is doing (usually imperative).Rate it:

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watch like a hawkto observe (someone or something) closely and keenlyRate it:

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watch one's headTo look out for things one's head might bump into.Rate it:

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watch one's mouthTo be careful about what one says, especially with regard to disrespectful or profane language.Rate it:

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watch one's mouthIn the imperative form, used as a warning to avoid or stop using inappropriate language, especially profanity, or disrespectful utterances.Rate it:

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watch one's stepTo be cautious.Rate it:

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watch outTo be aware or conscious; to look closely or carefully; to use caution. Often used in the imperative.Rate it:

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watch this spaceAn indication that a development will follow.Rate it:

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watch your mouthWatch what you say; usually said in response to someone cursing; "young man" or "young woman" is often added to the end of the phraseRate it:

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Face the MusicTo confront the consequences of ones decisions and actions, or to accept the responsibility of one’s actionsRate it:

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keep an eye onTo watch and pay attention to.Rate it:

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keep an eye outTo watch for, look for, or search for.Rate it:

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Man On The Roof!Depression Daze "Warning" in a Social Gathering or 'Knot of Male Conversationalists' of proximity of A Lady Within Earshot, So "Watch Your Filthy Language!"Rate it:

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not to rewrite other people's wordsThe act of compromising to limiting ones word usage.Rate it:

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on its meritsConsidering only intrinsic good points and bad points, without prejudice or other considerations, such as procedural ones.Rate it:

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snake eyesTwo ones, after rolling two dice.Rate it:

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look afterTo watch or protect; to keep safe.Rate it:

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a goose has wandered onto one's midsection.To experience a warm and fuzzy feeling inside ones chest; to feel content and happy.Rate it:

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what goes around comes aroundWhat encompasses ones ideal thought makes a return to an original meaning once more.Rate it:

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a fool and his money are soon partedIt is easy to get money from foolish people, especially rich ones.Rate it:

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look onTo watch; to observe.Rate it:

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hackles risingAn emotional or mental reaction to an irritable situation or person which causes a physical response to ones patience and/or the hair on the back of the one's neck.Rate it:

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quantum mechanicsThe branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms for classical Newtonian ones.Rate it:

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bunk offWe all bunked off school yesterday to watch the football.Rate it:

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spy onTo secretly watch; to surveil.Rate it:

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beat one's swords into ploughsharesTo refrain from doing aggressive activities and to do peaceful ones.Rate it:

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il a accroché sa montre (pop.)He has “popped” his watch.Rate it:

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à qui mal veut, mal arriveHarm watch, harm catch; Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.Rate it:

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age before beautyA phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones.Rate it:

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assidēre aegroto (Liv. 25. 26)to watch by a sick man's bedside.Rate it:

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Bite Your TongueTo hold ones words or to have control over what one is willing to say, to being ashamed of something that has been said or trying not to say itRate it:

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brush downUsed other than as an idiom: see brush, down. To remove something with a brush, or ones hands using a downward brushing motion.Rate it:

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close to homeAffecting people close to, or within, ones family circle.Rate it:

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cracked me upTo break ones solemnity, reservedness, seriousness.Rate it:

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custodias agere in valloto keep watch on the rampart.Rate it:

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don't zig when you should zag, once you find true love.Make the right steps and not the wrong ones when you have someone who loves you and/or you are in a relationship, in order to keep love and not lose it.Rate it:

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dot the i's and cross the t'sTo take care of every detail, even minor ones; To be meticulous or thorough.Rate it:

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feather one's nestTo achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth.Rate it:

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Fly in the OintmentA small disturbance or irritation which can spoil ones pleasure and excitementRate it:

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