it's your own lookout
UK informalDefinition
› said to someone in order to tell them that they are responsible for their own problems: It's your own lookout if you're not properly insured.Duty, obligation and responsibility
(Definition of it's your own lookout from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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it- prefix
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Italian adjective
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Synonyms and related words:
- accountable adjective
- answer for sb/sth phrasal verb
- answer for sth phrasal verb
- answer to sb phrasal verb
- answerable adjective
- commitment noun
- fail noun 2
- fall to sb phrasal verb
- had better/best do sth idiom
- hat noun
- have sth on your hands idiom
- I am not my brother's keeper idiom
- owe sb a living idiom
- pass the buck idiom
- pay your dues idiom
- portfolio noun (JOB)
- preserve noun (ACTIVITY)
- purview noun
- remit noun
- shoulder noun (RESPONSIBILITY)
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