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What does on the qui vive mean?

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Adverb
  1. in a state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle
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Naturally every one is on the qui vive for the engagement, but that's all right.
Expectation was on the qui vive, for the Forward was going out with the tide.
Meanwhile, authors who don't feel the itch to moonlight use a lot of ingenuity to keep their series sleuths on the qui vive.
He has learned to convert the absence of a bedrock sense of social normalcy into a talent for living on the qui vive.
As a consequence, they are forever on the qui vive, hoping to cheat before they are cheated.
That was all, but it was sufficient to prove how intensely men were on the qui vive.

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