to check yourself
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7.5
- phrasal verb
- Informal
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reflexionar
- Before making any decisions, it's wise to check yourself and consider the consequences of your actions.
- check yourself before you wreck
- need to check yourself
So it's so important to check yourself on these things.
- So it's so important to check yourself on these things.
- So check yourself before you wreck yourself.
- But it is moronic and you need to really, really check yourself.
- And you have to check yourself if you are being the constantly negative individual.
- And so I think it's super important, step one, that when you feel that frustration that you check yourself at the door.
- So please understand that if you want to really be sure that this guy's really in love with you and this is the man to move forward with, check yourself.
- It's like they are you, you know, you have to kind of check yourself for like your own desire for control and power, you know, but these people just actually have it.
Examples
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But you got to check yourself.
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Hey, you might want to check yourself, old friend.
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So you might want to check yourself before something bad happens to your business model.
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OK, so you can check yourself, request a little bit effort.
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So it's so important to check yourself on these things.
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You know, Paul, you better check yourself.
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You need to check yourself.
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I think you need to check yourself before you open your mouth and judge others or call them 'evil'.
Blog text (28) -
I would like to suggest that you check yourself.
Blog text (2) -
Sometimes, in the moment, I have to check myself.
Blog text (32)
Antonyms
How Self-Aware
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase directly combines 'check' (inspect/assess) with the reflexive 'yourself', so it literally instructs someone to examine or reassess their own behavior or attitude. This compositional, reflexive pattern is common cross-linguistically and makes the intended meaning (reconsider or control your behavior) predictable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Check yourself may come from the simple action of looking in a mirror to check yourself before you speak or go out. That idea of pausing and looking became a way to tell someone to 'stop and think about their behavior', so today it means 'stop and rethink or control your actions'.