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on the ball

active and aware of things. Their staff seems to be really on the ball, able to get projects done on time.

Related vocabulary: keep your eye on the ball

See also: ball

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Then the boys who are bending and watching on the outside, mark them: they are most useful players, the dodgers, who seize on the ball the moment it rolls out from amongst the chargers, and away with it across to the opposite goal. Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context He ought to keep his eye on the ball,' said the more practical Sigsbee. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context There was no sound of approaching footsteps--there was a general hush, and then another bang of the mallet on the ball and then a clapping of hands. Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context More results

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Then the boys who are bending and watching on the outside, mark them: they are most useful players, the dodgers, who seize on the ball the moment it rolls out from amongst the chargers, and away with it across to the opposite goal.

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context

He ought to keep his eye on the ball,' said the more practical Sigsbee.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context

There was no sound of approaching footsteps--there was a general hush, and then another bang of the mallet on the ball and then a clapping of hands.

Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context

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