/ · 1894 Brewer’s · Q · Qui Vive? (French)
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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.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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