Meanings
verbwatch 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)
present singular third person watches one's step · participle present watching one's step · participle past watched one's step · past watched one's step
- To move cautiously.
- idiomaticTo be cautious.
We congratulate our correspondents on some very cogent reasoning, and shall have to watch our step even more carefully in future!
1944 May and June, “In the Critics' Den”, in Railway Magazine, page 132
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 走路小心, 谨慎行事
- 走路小心 (zǒulù)to move cautiously
- 谨慎行事 (jǐnshèn)to be cautious
Finnish katsoa eteensä, katsoa eteensä
- katsoa eteensäto move cautiously
- katsoa eteensäto be cautious
French regarder devant soi, faire attention où l'on marche
- regarder devant soito move cautiously
- faire attention où l'on marcheto move cautiously
- faire attentionto be cautious
- être prudentto be cautious
Greek προσέχω πού πατάω
- προσέχω πού πατάω (prosécho poú patáo)to move cautiously
Hungarian a lába elé néz
- a lába elé nézto move cautiously
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