Brewer's: Qui Vive?

(French). Who goes there? The challenge of a sentinel.

To be on the qui vive.
On the alert; to be quick and sharp; to be on the tip-toe of expectation, like a sentinel. (See above.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Related Content