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watch one's step
watch one's step
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]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Yedidah | | - | Biblical Hebrew |
| Foka | | - | Russian |
| Geneva | | jə-NEE-və | English |
| Bonnie | | BAHN-ee | English |
| Utku | | - | Turkish |
| Apollo | | ə-PAW-lo (English) | Greek Mythology (Latinized) |