weighone'swords (third-person singular simple presentweighs one's words,present participleweighing one's words,simple past and past participleweighed one's words)

1. (figuratively) To thinkcarefully about what one will say.

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• “weigh your words” inLongman Dictionary of Contemporary English,Longman.
• “weigh your words” (US) / “weigh your words” (UK) inMacmillan English Dictionary.
• “weigh one's words”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
• “weigh your words”, inCambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “weigh one's words”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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