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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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Question
Questionists
Questions and Commands
Queubus
Queue
Queux
Quey Calves are dear Veal
Qui
Qui sExcuse, sAccuse
Qui-Tam
Qui Vive? (French)
Quia Emptores
Quibble
Quick
Quick Sticks (In)
Quickly (Dame)
Quicksand
Quickset
Quicksilver
Quid
Half a Quid