"easy does it" meaning in English

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Phrase

Audio: en-au-easy does it.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} easy does it
  1. (idiomatic) Relax; do something gently, lightly or carefully; slow down; calm down. Tags: idiomatic Translations (do something gently or slowly): a poc a poc (Catalan), tranquil·litat i bons aliments (Catalan), 慢慢來 (Chinese Mandarin), 慢慢来 (mànmàn lái) (Chinese Mandarin), 別著急 (Chinese Mandarin), 别着急 (bié zháojí) (Chinese Mandarin), 慢一點 (Chinese Mandarin), 慢一点 (màn yīdiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 小心一點 (Chinese Mandarin), 小心一点 (xiǎoxīn yīdiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), pomalu (Czech), forsigtig (Danish), små slag (Danish), varovasti (Finnish), doucement (French), d’une main légère (French), immer mit der Ruhe (German), με το μαλακό (me to malakó) (Greek), óvatosan (Hungarian), lassan a testtel (Hungarian), ne olyan hevesen (Hungarian), nyugalom (Hungarian), nyugi (Hungarian), attenzione (Italian), vacci piano (Italian), ゆっくりやれ落ち着け (yukkuri yare ochi tsuke) (Japanese), lēnāk brauksi, tālāk tiksi (Latvian), ta det rolig (Norwegian Bokmål), ta det forsiktig (Norwegian Bokmål), vá/vai com calma/cuidado (Portuguese), ти́хо е́дешь, да́льше бу́дешь (tíxo jédešʹ, dálʹše búdešʹ) (Russian), ти́хий воз скоре́е бу́дет на горе́ (tíxij voz skoréje búdet na goré) (Russian), бы́страя ло́шадь ско́ро уста́нет (býstraja lóšadʹ skóro ustánet) (Russian), полегче (polexče) (Russian), lakše malo! (Serbo-Croatian), smiri doživljaj! (Serbo-Croatian), no te apresures (Spanish), con cautela (Spanish), despacito (Spanish), despacito y buena letra (Spanish), ta det lugn (Swedish), ta det försiktigt (Swedish), hêdê hêdê (Zazaki)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.