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watch it

Idioms  

  1. Also, watch out. Be careful, as in Watch it as you go down that ladder, or Watch out, there are a lot of cars on this road. The first term dates from the early 1900s, the variant from the mid-1800s. Also see look out.

Example Sentences

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"Anybody who's passing judgement on the situation needs to watch it first," she says.

From BBC

Jonas adds, “It’s allegorical in nature. What if I could just take this man and chain him up? It’s making that literal for us to watch. It’s about that female id deep inside of us.”

From Los Angeles Times

The only thing more mortifying than a shameless stunt fight is knowing you’re shameless enough to watch it.

From The Wall Street Journal

My fingers itched to feed one thing through the wheel and watch it transform to another before my very eyes.

From Literature

"You wll naturally watch it," Bunce says and Conlan agrees.

From BBC

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