on one's toes

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

on one's toes

1. (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)
• Swedish: på tårna (sv)

Anagrams

• nose-to-nose