on one's toes

English

Pronunciation

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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: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: varpaillaan
German: auf Trab
Norwegian:
Nynorsk: på tå hev
Russian: настороже (ru) (nastorože), начеку (ru) (načeku), в тонусе (v tonuse)

Anagrams

nose-to-nose

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