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keep a weather eye out



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, keep a weather eye on or open . Be extremely watchful or alert, as in We should keep a weather eye on our competitors in case they start a price war . The precise allusion in this expression is disputed, but presumably it refers to watching for a storm. [Early 1800s]
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And keep a weather eye out for other forms of scapegoating and abuse; if this is how they’re willing to treat Andy in front of you, I worry about how they treat him in private.

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It’s proper to keep a weather eye out for indications that taxes are causing disaffection among high-income taxpayers in California, chiefly because the state’s tax structure is highly dependent on the top brackets.

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It’s 1746 in the colonial village at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, and islanders on the Broad Way keep a weather eye out for the stray cow.

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In addition to everything else, Apple Apple, Google Google, Microsoft Microsoft, Amazon.com Amazon.com, and IBM IBM now have to keep a weather eye out for cybersquatters.

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As climate-watchers and coastal-dwellers keep a weather eye out for signals of irreversible changes in the environment, the world’s fastest-moving glacier has already begun self-destruction.

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