Take a step back and examine your actions, because you are in a potentially dangerous or sticky situation that could get bad very easily. Often in a harmful manner.
"I'm going out with a beautiful woman tonight, she's married..."
"Fool, you better Check yourself before you wreck yourself!"
"Fool, you better Check yourself before you wreck yourself!"
by GSDubs October 14, 2009
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1 (v, idiom) "check yourself before you wreck yourself"
A popular idiom- its creation typically being credited to the revered American Gangster Rapper, Ice Cube- that implies a person, before making a firm choice of word(s) or action(s), should first exercise precaution and consider all outcomes and possible consequences that will follow as a result of what they say or do; and that, as a result of the individual's negligence to use foresight in the situation, if they do not exercise such precaution- or "check theirself" first, then on nearly every occasion that isn't a "first offense" the individual in question will suffer instantaneous or swift judgement (karma) dictated by the other people around them.
(synonyms: recognize, respect, keep it 100, watch one's attitude, watch one's mouf, behave oneself)
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1 (v, idiom) "check yourself before you wreck yourself"
A popular idiom- its creation typically being credited to the revered American Gangster Rapper, Ice Cube- that implies a person, before making a firm choice of word(s) or action(s), should first exercise precaution and consider all outcomes and possible consequences that will follow as a result of what they say or do; and that, as a result of the individual's negligence to use foresight in the situation, if they do not exercise such precaution- or "check theirself" first, then on nearly every occasion that isn't a "first offense" the individual in question will suffer instantaneous or swift judgement (karma) dictated by the other people around them.
(synonyms: recognize, respect, keep it 100, watch one's attitude, watch one's mouf, behave oneself)
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"Ayo, Christine. I done seen my girl loving up another man."
"Who, Quincy?"
"Yes, ma'am. You already know I'm finna burn all her shoes!"
"Woah now, big dog! You'd betta check yourself before you wreck yourself."
"Who, Quincy?"
"Yes, ma'am. You already know I'm finna burn all her shoes!"
"Woah now, big dog! You'd betta check yourself before you wreck yourself."
by Yo Mama’s Asshole January 26, 2021
A response to a possibly false statement that one gives when the party being responded to is certainly deluding themselves. Roughly, "If you keep saying that, you might actually start to believe it".
"The price of gasoline is going to go down tomorrow," quipped Sue. Joe simply responded, "You keep telling yourself that."
by Dennis The Tiger July 11, 2008
This guy rode up on a bicycle that was way too good to belong to him, and he said to me, "break yourself, you fool."
by dywypi November 05, 2013
To check your actions before you go off and do something stupid, and Shrek the almighty ogre lord decides to kill you.
Man: I hear investing in bitcoin is the way to go nowadays
Man's friend: Check yourself, before you Shrek yourself
Man's friend: Check yourself, before you Shrek yourself
by Imnotameme January 18, 2018
when someone exceeds their expectations
by wink wink holla February 02, 2010
Take a chill pill and look at your actions. Examine what you're next action because right now, you're heading in a bad direction.
by macabre pizza coffin April 19, 2017