Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action.
1 He sat like a man who is perpetually on the qui vive .
2 A species of horrible curiosity kept every one on the qui vive .
3 We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat.
4 His instinct for the truth is always on the qui vive . - C.
5 You will readily understand that all my faculties were now on the qui vive .
6 Yet these two women were certainly on the qui vive .
7 I know the government are all on the ' qui vive . '
8 But a man cannot always be on the qui vive .
9 We're pretty well forward here and we have to keep on the qui vive .
10 He produced the effect of setting the men on the qui vive without alarming them.
11 These incidents had set the whole police force of the city on the qui vive .
12 From the gunner's mate down every man of the crew was on the qui vive .
13 The colonists were on the qui vive , and did not leave their post at the Chimneys.
14 All the people were en the qui vive .
15 The guard was thoroughly on the qui vive by that time, if not suspicious, then officious.
16 Instantly Byers was on the qui vive , he being nearest the point indicated by the blue flare.
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