Warn Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Advance warning
• Alarm bells began to ring
• Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
• Beware of cheap imitations
• Beware the Ides of March
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Err on the side of caution
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• Intruder alert

• Let the buyer beware
• On red alert
• On the alert
• Radio alarm
• Rally cap (A baseball expression denoting a cap is a worn inside out or backwards)
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Red alert
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Sound the alarm
• Throw caution to the wind
• Warn off
• Warning bell
• Warning signal