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be on the safe side
verb as in play it safe
Example Sentences
“I’m seeing scores of people that I had relationships with a generation ago coming back just to be on the safe side,” says Michael Wildes, an immigration lawyer and managing partner at law firm Wildes and Weinberg.
Just to be on the safe side, Takeo also has a bug-free menu.
So to be on the safe side, it would be advisable to avoid raw milk products.
Jones has been cleared to return after a wreck at Talladega resulted in a compression fracture in his back, but the team opted to hold him out for one more week to be on the safe side.
“I felt we didn’t get enough time to think about it and read up on it. So I felt, to be on the safe side, ‘no, no’ — no change.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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