Brewer's: Guard

To be off one's guard. To be careless or heedless.

A guardroom is the place where military offenders are detained; and a guardship is a ship stationed in a port or harbour for its defence.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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