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keep a weather eye out
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]Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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