keep a lookout
Monitor for danger
To keep a lookout is to watch attentively for something, especially danger or opportunity: Keep a lookout for police while I change this tire.
The phrase implies sustained vigilance rather than a casual glance.
Someone keeping a lookout serves as a sentinel, whether literally watching for approaching threats or figuratively staying alert to possibilities: I'm keeping a lookout for cheap flights to Rome.
- watchPortable timekeeping device
- scoutOne who reconnoiters
- reconnoiterMilitary preliminary survey
- vigilanceState of keen awareness
- mastheadNewspaper's ownership box
stay alert · heads up · scrutiny · observation · alertness · search · patrol · minaret · detect · warn · watch your back · scan · attentiveness · monitoring · early warning · oversee · guard · probe
keep a lookouttune out
Deliberately stop attending
zone out · let one's guard down · daydream · space out · look away
keep, keeper, keepers, keeping, keeps, kept, upkeep, gatekeeper, goalkeeper