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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
I wanted that part of my face to look alive, look worried, and have some emotion in it.
It would feature evergreens, because they look alive when everything else seems to have died.
Ball's boast that he would be set free by hundreds of men marching from afar hath made even the sheriffs look alive.
"I love to draw—but my people don't look alive, somehow," said little Milly, wistfully.
Look alive with that axe, Tom; he can't breathe, and he's being roasted!
You bring the brand and look alive, Dick, or I'll sharpen ye up a bit.'
Look alive with that Show o' yours, Guv'nor—we ain't got long to stop!
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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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