give pause to someone
give pause to (one)
To cause one to take a moment to consider something. I'd love to buy a house, but the fact that I'd have to completely deplete my savings account to do it gives pause to me. That statistic should give pause to everybody. I think the mayoral candidate's distressing comments gave pause to everyone in the party.
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give pause to someone (or give someone pause (for thought)
cause someone to think carefully or hesitate before doing something.Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
References in periodicals archive
My university's bibliometrics specialist recently told me that the most common number of citations received by scholarly articles is zero, which ought to
give pause to someone thinking of republishing anything.
Marked might not stand out on a comic book rack, but it would certainly
give pause to someone browsing in a religious book store where it is just as likely to be found.
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