on one's guard
Example Sentences
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“Nature here is so strong that one has to be on one’s guard to not be absorbed by it,” wrote Dodge.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023
It has sniffed at such examples as "directives" for orders, "alerted" for being put on one's guard, "dis-O.K." for withdrawing approval, "deactivate" for abolishing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is necessary to be on one’s guard against what one hears, as I verified yesterday in a particular case.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
It is imperative to be on one's guard against any similar experience again,—that being the only benefit that can come from disasters.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
And in view of this fact one must be on one's guard against confusing a logical transformation of concepts with a genealogical development.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by O'Harra, Edwin V.
