"So I talk about things to disarm them, because no matter what, their guard is up.
Even though she works at a low-security center, her guard is up the moment she steps off the train.
Everyone but Will, that is, whose guard is up as soon as he sees David lock the front door.
"When I came here, my guard was up for the whole first semester, but after that, I let it down," he said.
"A lot of women are traveling the planet, and whether it's a city like New York or Chicago or Houston or Cairo, their guard is up," said Carol Margolis, a business consultant and founder of Smartwomentravelers.com.
Their guard was up even though they were there for a day of training Afghan soldiers without once leaving the confines of a fortified base — even when chatting with the Afghan officers over a lunch of goat meat and yogurt.
He writes of the advisers in a base in Bad Pakh: "Their guard was up even though they were there for a day of training Afghan soldiers without once leaving the confines of a fortified base — even when chatting with the Afghan officers over a lunch of goat meat and yogurt".
In spite of their wild cheers, her guard was up.
The connotation being: Is she available for sex? "My guard was up," Azadi recalled.
