on your toes
C2 Someone or something that keeps you on your toes forces you to continue directing all your attention and energy to what you are doing:
I work with people who are half my age so that keeps me on my toes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reacting and responding
- backlash
- bite
- bite back (at sb/sth)
- chain reaction
- counteract
- greet
- knob
- reactive
- recoil
- reflexively
- respond
- response
- responsive
- rise
- rise to the occasion/challenge idiom
- sensitive
- shock wave
- strike
- wake (sb) up
- worm
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