look sharp

look sharp

To pay attention; to be vigilant. Look sharp, or you'll get hit in the head with a soccer ball! Look sharp! There's a hole up ahead!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

look sharp

Get moving, be alert, as in The coach told the team they would have to look sharp if they wanted to win. This colloquial expression, dating from the early 1700s, originally meant "to keep a strict watch" but acquired its present sense in the early 1800s.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

look sharp

be quick.
1953 Margaret Kennedy Troy Chimneys I had…begun an idle flirtation with Maria, … then, perceiving that I should be caught if I did not look sharp, I kept out of her way.
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look ˈlively/ˈsharp

(British English, informal) do something quickly; hurry up: Come on, look lively or we won’t get to the station in time.
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See also:
  • look on with
  • look on with (someone)
  • look ahead
  • have a look-see
  • get a dirty look (from someone)
  • give somebody/get a dirty look
  • dragged through a hedge backward(s)
  • babysit
  • babysit (someone or something)
  • look up to
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The 11-song collection reunites Jackson with the scrappy band who accompanied him on the trilogy of LPs - Look Sharp, I'm The Man, and Beat Crazy - that first established him as a major artist in 1979.
Volume 4, whose release coincides with the 25th anniversary of the recording of Jackson's landmark debut Look Sharp, marks a comeback for one of the classic bands of the post-punk era - Jackson (vocals and keyboards), Gary Sanford (guitar), Graham Maby (bass), and Dave Houghton (drums).
Former classical prodigy Jackson was already a young musical veteran - with a resume that included the Royal Academy of Music, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, musical directorship of a Playboy Club, and a proto-punk band called Arms and Legs - when Look Sharp was released into the charged post-punk atmosphere of January 1979.
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