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take care

 
Idioms: take care
 


1.  Be careful, use caution, as in Take care or you will slip on the ice. [Late 1500s]
2.  Good-bye, as in I have to go now; take care. This apparent abbreviation of take care of yourself is used both orally and in writing, where it sometimes replaces the conventional Sincerely or Love in signing off correspondence. [Colloquial; 1960s]


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The verb has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: be careful, prudent, or watchful

Meaning #2: be in charge of or deal with
  Synonym: mind

Meaning #3: take charge of or deal with
  Synonyms: attend, look, see


 
 

 

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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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