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Actively looking for something, as in Their underpaid computer programmers are always on the prowl for better jobs . This idiom transfers an animal's search for prey to human pursuits that are usually less bloodthirsty. [c. 1800]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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