think twice

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   consider and reconsider carefully

   “Think twice before you have a child”

   Broaderconsider

Questions about think twice

What does think twice mean?

think twice means "consider and reconsider carefully".

Is think twice a common word?

think twice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.