on one's toes

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on one's toes 的定义

  1. Alert, ready to act, as in Orchestra players must be on their toes all the time, so as not to miss an entrance. This metaphoric expression probably alludes to boxers or runners who must be on their toes in order to move or start quickly. It gained currency with Richard Rodgers' and Lorenz Hart's extremely popular musical, On Your Toes. [Early 1900s]

on one's toes 近义词

on one's toes

等同于 mindful

on one's toes

等同于 observant

on one's toes

等同于 on the ball

on one's toes

等同于 attentive

on one's toes

等同于 watchful

on one's toes

等同于 wide-awake

on one's toes

等同于 on one's guard

on one's toes

等同于 open-eyed

on one's toes

等同于 alert

on one's toes

等同于 on guard

on one's toes

等同于 on the ball

更多on one's toes例句

  1. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  5. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
  10. Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.