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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... one side Keep one's thumb on: Keep a secret * He is still keeping his thumb on
his misdeeds Keep one's weather eye open: Be alert or keep a sharp lookout* It
would be in our own interest to keep our weather eye open against any calamity
...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf. S.E. keep one's weather-eye open. weather-scupper. 'It is an old joke at sea',
writes Clark Russell, in 1883, 'to advise a greenhorn to get a handspike and hold
it down hard in the weather-scuppers to steady the ship's wild motions.' Coll.
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The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language: A ...
To keep one's weather-eye open or awake, to be vigilantly on one's guard ; to
have one's wits about one. Keep vour weather eye ateakf, and don't make any
mora acquaintances, however handsome. Dickens. — Weather -guets^ a
forecasting ...
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A Dictionary of Cliches
From the earlier sense (C. 16–18), 'to grind down; to oppress'. (O.E.D.) keep
one's weather-eye open, to . To be on the alert: from ca. 1880. Originally nautical,
'to watch for stormy weather'. keep the ball rolling, to . To continue to do
something, ...
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The Standard Dictionary of English Slang
Weaker sex— Women. fSA (JStt#J 1 Peter iii, 7). Weather — To keep one's
weather eye open : to be on one's guard. -Sft1; tfc$;. Under the weather: 111; out
of sort. %fS ; ^iS. Weather-cock — A vacillating person. Weather gage—
Advantage.
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The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
Weather-worn — stvsit^fc- ^s i To keep one's weather eye open — To be vigilant ;
ii«^ ;t*t . To make fair weather -To flatter; c^ilif ^^1 1 Under stress of weather—
Owing to storms etc. ; weathVfir (wBth-), v.t. & i. VRare) To expose to air ; ( I 2.
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The Chambers Dictionary
... conditions on the ground; not, or no longer, under the weather; keep one's
weather eye open to be alert; to keep a sharp lookout; keep or have the weather
of to be to the windward of; to have the advantage of; make fair weather (Shakesp
) to ...
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Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade: A Description of the Beauties ...
The Wardwan is an exceptionally narrow valley, and hence the mountainsides
are very steep and precipitous, so that snow-slides and avalanches are very
common, and one has to keep one's weather-eye open for them. During our
march Dr ...
Cecil Earle Tyndale-Biscoe, 1925
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Concise English Dictionary
keep one's weather eye open to be alert: to keep a sharp lookout; make heavy
weather of to find excessive difficulty in; under the weather indisposed, seedy:
drunk; weather out to hold out against till the end; weather the storm to come
safely ...
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It paid to keep one's weather eye open for the Harbor Police, who undoubtedly would have warned me off or cited me for trespassing. Needless ... «San Diego Reader, 三月 11»
