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keep a weather eye open	To maintain a background awareness of something; to remain alert to changes without it occupying your full attention.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
keep one on one's toes	To keep one attentive, active, busy or alert.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
live wire	An especially energetic, alert, or vivacious person.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
on one's toes	Attentive, active, busy or alert.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
stay woke	First used by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in a 1938 interview afterword of his song Scottsboro Boys-named for nine Black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Lead Belly knew the Scottsboro boys, and urged Black listeners and Black persons traveling through that area in Alabama to "Stay Woke" (be vigilant, cautious, and alert) in the spoken afterword to the song. Lead Belly's direct relative, Global Activist and Equality Advocate Greshun De Bouse began the #STAYWOKELEADBELLY movement to acknowledge the phrase's origin, and redefine its present-day meaning as a more generalized, all-inclusive phrase admonishing all to be cognizant of past, present, and future world occurrences.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
you snooze you lose	If you are not alert and attentive, you will not be successful.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
tip off	To alert or inform someone.	Rate it: (4.00 / 4 votes)
keep a weather eye open	To be alert; to concentrate on a matter in hand.	Rate it: (3.00 / 4 votes)
fox sleep	feigned sleep while actually alert	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
On the Ball	Well informed, alert, attentive, aware, competent	Rate it: (1.50 / 2 votes)
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed	Alert and in an eager, frisky, or playful mood; full of life.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed	Eager, alert, enthusiastic, and lively.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
Alarmstufe Rot	red alert	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
idiot light	Any warning light or indicator on the dashboard of a car, designed to alert the driver of problems, such as the parking brake being on or the oil being low.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
if you snooze, you lose	A figure of speech, relative to remaining alert in any agenda, active project, or important action.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
keep your eye on the ball	Remain Focused, Determined, Alert	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
keep your friends close, and your enemies closer	One should be on their toes and alert of their surroundings if malicious people are around, to ensure such people can't wreak havoc in one's life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
morning person	A person whose who wakes up without difficulty early each morning and who is alert and active during the first part of the day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the ball	Alert, active, or attentive; on top of things.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
play with a full deck	To behave in a manner suggesting that one is of normal intelligence, alert, and mentally stable.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
prick up	to rise and become more alert	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
red flag	A cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stay tuned	To wait or remain alert (for new developments or for further information).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
up to snuff	Mentally alert, shrewd, savvy.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wide awake	Awake and very alert.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)