Lexic.us

Definition of Look sharp

1. Verb. Act or move at high speed. "Hurry--it's late!"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Sharp

Literary usage of Look sharp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1898)
"I had no time to look round and see what "YOU MUST look sharp!" was going on behind me, when I heard Johansen quietly say, ' You must look sharp if you want ..."

2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Go bet, lit. go better, ie go quicker ; hence, used like the modern ' look sharp' or ; hurry up'. Prob. orig. a hunting cry, as in Chaucer, Leg. ..."

3. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1894)
"look sharp.—" From a single and hasty view of bodies under tin- microscope we are liable to form erroneous ideas of form." RECENT PUBLICATIONS. ..."

4. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"VAL. We are much obliged to you for the service you render us. Luc. By jingo ! that's the very man for us. Let's look sharp and fetch him. MAR. ..."

5. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"... your watch to-morrow morning, you look sharp, you see land on weather bow." Aboard the Snark, Port Resolution, Tana, New Hebrides, Thursday, June 11, ..."

6. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1875)
"... I can tell you—and to look sharp about 1 you, too." i Mrs. Mason led the way up two flights of stairs, till they came to a very small attic, ..."

7. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1903)
"Watch carefully the first appearance of the plants and look sharp for cutworms, and if discovered use wheat bran and shorts, molasses and paris green ..."

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