on the alert

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on the alert (for someone or something)

watchful and attentive for someone or something. Be on the alert for pickpockets. You should be on the alert when you cross the street in heavy traffic.

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? References in classic literature
He did everything with an air which put your attention on the alert and raised your expectations, but the result somehow was always on stereotyped lines, unsuggestive, empty of any lesson that one could lay to heart. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context In an instant I was on the alert, for there could be no wood within that buried river that had not been man brought. Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context He seemed like a man on wires, a man on the alert, likely to miss nothing. The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context More results

? References in classic literature

He did everything with an air which put your attention on the alert and raised your expectations, but the result somehow was always on stereotyped lines, unsuggestive, empty of any lesson that one could lay to heart.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

In an instant I was on the alert, for there could be no wood within that buried river that had not been man brought.

Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

He seemed like a man on wires, a man on the alert, likely to miss nothing.

The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

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