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look alive
Idioms and Phrases
Act lively, hurry up, as in Look alive! This job has to be finished today . This phrase, often used as an imperative, today is more common in Britain than in America. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
The president must be animated — look alive! — but even more, his message must be animating for voters.
“He doesn’t look alive; he looks ridiculous. Men don’t wear makeup, Juanita.”
“Don’t take it all off. He needs to look alive.”
But the looks were on a dummy M3gan, and she didn’t look alive.
“That’s it! Let’s move! Look alive!!” various coaches yelled as the players scrimmaged in green and bright orange vests.
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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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