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look sharp
Idioms and Phrases
Get moving, be alert, as in The coach told the team they would have to look sharp if they wanted to win . This colloquial expression, dating from the early 1700s, originally meant “to keep a strict watch” but acquired its present sense in the early 1800s.Example Sentences
Gonsolin had looked sharp this spring, pitching three scoreless innings in two Cactus League games along with a backfield scrimmage outing this week.
“I thought the command was good, the throw was good … he just looks sharp right now,” Roberts said.
"By doing this, as the analysis in the paper predicts, it generates 3D shapes that look sharp and realistic," he says.
The young boy looked sharp, decked out in an orange-brown suit.
After a shaky start by both early in the week — questionable passes, interceptions — Stick and Perez looked sharp Thursday.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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