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keep a weather eye open

idiom
Meaning

to maintain a background awareness of something; to remain alert to changes without it occupying one's full attention.


Examples
SIMPLE

Keep a weather eye open for any changes in the schedule.

CONTEXTUAL

While you work on the report, keep a weather eye open for any emails from the manager.

COMPLEX

The experienced captain instructed the crew to keep a weather eye open for shifting winds while he navigated the narrow channel.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

    compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting of an identical injury on that person.

  2. 02

    apple of someone's eye

    The object of somebody's affections; a person (or sometimes a thing) that someone strongly prefers; a favorite, a loved one.

  3. 03

    blink of an eye

    A moment (a very short period of time).

  4. 04

    camel through the eye of a needle

    Hyperbole to illustrate something that is impossible to do or to make happen.

  5. 05

    catch someone's eye

    To capture someone's attention.

  6. 06

    catch the eye

    To attract the attention

  7. 07

    close one eye

    to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression).

  8. 08

    cobbler, keep to your last

    One should not criticise matters outside one's field of expertise; one should mind one's business.

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