drop/lower your guard
C2 to stop being careful to avoid danger or difficulty:
Once he knew I wasn't a journalist, he dropped his guard and even let me take a photograph of him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not paying attention
- absent
- absent-minded
- absently
- abstracted
- anyhow
- be having a moment idiom
- blind
- faraway
- glaze
- go back to sleep! idiom
- hasty
- heedless
- not take a blind bit of notice idiom
- perfunctory
- remiss
- sideline
- slapdash
- slaphappy
- sloppy
- wander
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