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watch out

verb
  1. To be aware or conscious; to look closely or carefully; to use caution. Often used in the imperative. · Watch out for low doorways, so you don’t hit your head.
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I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 1 · B2
“What day of the month is it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 50 · B2
“The Eden Musee’ll get that old frozen Nesselrode yet if he don’t watch out.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 8 · C1

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