What does watch your language mean?
Idiom Meaning:
be careful what you say (especially when using expletives)
Examples of this Idiom in Movies & TV Shows:
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Time of Scene:
Mr. Trask: I am left with no real witness. Mr. Willis’s testimony is not only vague, it is unsubstantiated. The substance I was looking for, Mr. Simms, was to come from you.
Charlie Simms: I’m sorry.
Mr. Trask: I’m sorry too, Mr. Simms, because you know what I am going to do. In as much as I can’t punish Mr. Havemeyer, Mr. Potter, or Mr. Jameson, and I won’t punish Mr. Willis. He’s the only party to this incident who is still worthy of calling himself a Baird man. I’m going to recommend to the disciplinary committee that you be expelled. Mr. Simms, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: But not a snitch.
Mr. Trask: Excuse me?
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: No, I don’t think I will.
Mr. Trask: Mr. Slade.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: This is such a crock of shit.
Mr. Trask: Please watch your language, Mr. Slade. You are in the Baird School, not a barracks. Mr Simms, I will give you one last opportunity to speak up.
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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Time of Scene:
Pomade Vendor: I can get the part from Bristol. It’ll take two weeks. Here’s your pomade.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Two weeks? That don’t do me no good.
Pomade Vendor: Nearest Ford auto man’s Bristol.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on. I don’t want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan.
Pomade Vendor: I don’t carry Dapper Dan. I carry Fop.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don’t want Fop, goddamn it! I’m a Dapper Dan man!
Pomade Vendor: Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you. Have it in a couple of weeks.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
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