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Word of advice   /wərd əv ædvˈaɪs/   Listen
Word of advice

noun
1.
Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness).  Synonyms: admonition, monition, warning.  "The warning was to beware of surprises" , "His final word of advice was not to play with matches"






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"Word of advice" Quotes from Famous Books



... loses the hounds in that country, he ought to go direct to Brackett's Wood. If you had come on to Brackett's, you'd have seen as good a thirty-two minutes as ever you wished to ride." When the ladies went out of the room Mrs. Spooner gave a parting word of advice to her husband, and to the host. "Now, Tom, don't you drink port-wine. Lord Chiltern, look after him, and ...
— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope

... now for the tonsure and the frock." So Mariuccia was turned out into the passage while he changed his dress. De Pretis came back a moment later and tried to help him, but he was so much overcome that he could only shed tears and give a last word of advice ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford

... me give you a word of advice. Don't mix yourself up with your new friends too much. You will ruin your own prospects in life if you do. There is nothing more fatal to a man among the people with whom you and I are to live and work than the suspicion of being tainted with Nationalist ideas. You can't be both a ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham

... do that myself," the constable said, "but I will go round to the Court now with the boy's confession, and I have no doubt the Alderman will let him go. But let me give you a word of advice: don't let him stir out of the house after dark. We have no doubt that there is a big gang concerned in this robbery, and the others of which we found the booty at the receiver's. They would not know how much this boy could tell ...
— When London Burned • G. A. Henty

... rose to go he said, "Well, I thank you heartily for your hospitality—now I will give you a word of advice. One of you lads should go and seek the sparkling golden water, which turns everything it ...
— Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know • Various


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