this verbal warning and boundary is provided when someone takes personal offense to what someone else is saying. It is meant to urge the person to reconsider what they are saying.
The term can be followed up with an βor elseβ but it is usually the final warning before a consequence is given (a slap, getting blocked, etc.)
Ann: People from Chicago are lazy, stupid, and unconcerned.
Vance: Uh, Iβm from Chicago.
Ann: So?
Vance: So Watch your mouth
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Watch out for danger behind your back (like you might get jumped or something).
Watch your back.
Keep an extra set of eyes on the back of your head.
Dude, be careful man. Watch your six.
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A generic warning that can be used in almost any situation to either warn of impeding danger or impending pranks.
Right before I tripped Colby I yelled "Hey watch yo jet!"
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An expression used by Wisconsinites, and Midwesterners in general, meaning "I love you", from "I love you, stay safe", popularized by the comedian Charlie Berens
"I'm headed to the Kwik Trip"
"Ope, it's snowing like the Dickens. Watch out for deer."
After having sex with a woman you don't want to forget, ejaculate in your hand and give her an Indian Rug Burn where her wrist watch would be. Then Everytime she goes to look at the time she will think of you.
So Davey and I keep sharing Sally as a sex partner but she is always calling Davey not me. But last time I gave her the old Invisible Wrist Watch and now she calls me like clock work!
"Who will watch the watchmen?" is a translation of the phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" made famous by the Roman Poet Juvenal in his satires.
Contextually it referred to the notion that male guards should not guard women against sexual assault as they themselves are capable of committing such crimes, the only solution would be to have the women guarded by eunuchs.
Generally though it is considered the embodiment of the philosophical question as to where ultimate power should reside. It can be attributed as the basis, or at least the summarization, of the United States' concept of division of political power. At any given moment a watchman is watched by two watchmen thus eliminating the possibility of corruption.
The phrase is also well known as the basis for the graphic novel, and film, Watchmen.
Synonymous phrases include:
Who will guard the guards?
Who will protect the protectors?
Who will police the police?
"Privacy is a farce, if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide. Surveillance is the only way to assure that no crime goes unpunished."
"But who will watch the watchmen? Themselves?"
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A reply you would get if you asked someone what the time was.
Bob: Excuse me ma'am, what is the time?
Louise: TIME TO GET A WATCH! LOL
Bob: Hahaha. But seriously, what's the time?
Louise: TIME TO GET A WATCH! LOL
Bob: Would it really hurt if you bothered to tell me?
Louise: Would it really hurt if you bothered to get a watch?
Bob: YOU WANKER
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