get wise to
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As people get more used to seeing white vans parked on busy high streets, will people who know they are wanted by police simply get wise to the cameras and avoid them?
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
Hypotheses from behavioral research propose that the rarer color morph always has an advantage, because the host birds gradually get wise to the trick.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
But deployed over a city, rats get wise to physical traps.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2023
It didn’t take them long to get wise to the return of their favorite food.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
"You have a long head on you, Steve, but the trouble with you is that you keep that fact so carefully concealed that a fellow doesn't get wise to it until it's too late."
From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.
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