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keep an eye out

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keep an eye out (for someone or something) and have an eye out (for someone or something); keep one's eye out (for someone or something); have one's eye out (for someone or something)
Fig. to watch for the arrival or appearance of someone or something. Please try to have an eye out for the bus. Keep an eye out for rain. Have your eye out for a raincoat on sale.
See also: eye, keep, out

keep an eye out (for somebody/something) also keep your eye out (for somebody/something)
to watch carefully for someone or something keep your eyes peeled (for something) Three aircraft kept an eye out for the submarine while waiting for help to arrive. I always kept my eye out for strangers.
Related vocabulary: keep an ear out for somebody/something
See also: eye, keep, out


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Keep an eye out for a steamy dream sequence between the girls, with Cassie dubbing Thelma "my dyke in shining armor.
The goal is to get them all trained to keep an eye out for suspicious packages left on school buses, strange things hidden in wheel wells, or strangers standing at school bus stops among students, Leeds says.
Keep an eye out for the Solar Express-o van, serving free samples of solar-heated coffee in neighborhoods across the United States in the coming year.
 
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