look out for number one

Example Sentences

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"If I were you, I'd look out for number one."

From Calvary Alley by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan

I paid consider'ble attention to your preachin' yesterday and the text seemed to be to look out for number one.

From The Depot Master by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

"Ah, well you've shown that you know how to look out for number one," he said.

From The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

If we don't look out for number one, who will take charge of that precious numeral?

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

I don't care for myself, and as for Dan—let him look out for number one.

From The Boy Trapper by Castlemon, Harry