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The seatbelt you resent until the exact moment you don't.

means A measure or device put in place to prevent harm, loss, or things going spectacularly wrong.

from From Old French sauve garde, literally a safe keeping or watchful protection, stitched together in the 1400s when bodyguards were a household necessity.

Legal muscleTrade law uses safeguards as emergency import brakes.
Verb tooYou can safeguard a secret, not just hold one.
Hardware echoOld machines had physical safeguards over moving blades.
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