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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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