on one's toes
English
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Prepositional phrase
on
one's
toes
(
idiomatic
)
Attentive
,
active
,
busy
or
alert
.
I keep my students
on their toes
with pop quizzes.
Derived terms
keep someone on their toes
Translations
attentive, active, busy
Chinese:
Mandarin:
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Finnish:
varpaillaan
German:
auf Trab
Norwegian:
Nynorsk:
på tå hev
Polish:
czujnie
(pl)
,
w gotowości
Russian:
настороже
(ru)
(
nastorože
)
,
начеку
(ru)
(
načeku
)
,
в тонусе
(
v tonuse
)
Swedish:
på tårna
(sv)
Anagrams
nose-to-nose