easy does it

easy does it idiom
Go carefully, don't hurry, as in That chest is heavy, so easy does it. [1920s] Also see go easy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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