look out
Verb
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Verb
look out
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see look, out
- look out, and you will see the rain has stopped
- to look out the window
- (intransitive, idiomat) to be vigilant and aware
- While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
- (transitive, idiom) to find by looking: to hunt out
- 1891, Henry James, The Pupil, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lesson_of_the_Master,_The_Marriages,_The_Pupil,_Brooksmith,_The_Solution,_Sir_Edmund_Orme_(New_York_%26_London:_Macmillan_%26_Co.,_1892)/The_Pupil/Chapter_5 page 144]
- Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 14:
- Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 58
- I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book.
- 1891, Henry James, The Pupil, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lesson_of_the_Master,_The_Marriages,_The_Pupil,_Brooksmith,_The_Solution,_Sir_Edmund_Orme_(New_York_%26_London:_Macmillan_%26_Co.,_1892)/The_Pupil/Chapter_5 page 144]
- (be vigilant) watch out
- German: hinausschauen
- Italian: affacciarsi
- Russian: (imperfective) выгля́дывать
- French: prendre garde
- German: aufpassen
- Italian: fare attenzione, stare attento
- Russian: быть настороже́
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