just in case
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
just in case
- (idiomatic) In the event; should there be a need.
- I'll take an umbrella, just in case (it rains).
- 1629, Roger Williams et al., The Correspondence of Roger Williams, Brown University Press (reprinted 1988, ISBN 0874513863, page 204 ↗,
- Dudley and his council "gave no credit to these suspicions" but decided to strengthen the colony's defenses just in case the rumors turned out to be true.
- 1981, John H. G. Pell, "General George Washington's Visit to Fort Ticonderoga in July 1783", Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, Volume XIV, Number 1, Summer 1981, Fort Ticonderoga Museum, page [http://books.google.com/books?id=6iE8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA260&dq=%22just+in+case%22+date:1821-1830&lr=&as_brr=0 260],
- Throughout 1782 and most of 1783 there was a mixture of defacto [sic] peace but preparedness for war just in case it should be resumed, a sort of cold war.
just in case
- (logic) if and only if
- The negation of a disjunction is true just in case both disjuncts are false.
- French: au cas où, par acquit de conscience
- German: für alle Fälle, sicherheitshalber, vorsichtshalber
- Portuguese: por precaução
- Russian: на вся́кий слу́чай
- Spanish: por si acaso, por si las moscas
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