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Upon one's guard   /əpˈɑn wənz gɑrd/   Listen
Upon one's guard

adjective
1.
Vigilant.  Synonyms: on guard, on one's guard, on your guard.  "Must remain on your guard in such a situation"






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"Upon one's guard" Quotes from Famous Books



... depart from my remembrance, but continually troubled me by coming across all other thoughts. And they persisted in doing so, until, by arguing the matter minutely with myself, I reflected that there is no vision but what comes from above, to warn one to be upon one's guard, and that consequently it was my duty to write mine down, that they might serve as a warning to others also. I therefore returned to my home, and whilst overwhelmed with melancholy, I was endeavouring to collect some of my frightful reminiscences, I happened to give a yawn over my paper, and this ...
— The Sleeping Bard - or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell • Ellis Wynne



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