get wise to
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When you arrive on tour so quickly, nobody knows your weaknesses to begin with, but opponents will get wise to your game and find tactics that work against you.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
"Don't you suppose that the 'Gink' would realize that the minute he tried doing what your friend Murphy thinks, some one of the bookmakers would get wise to it and holler?"
From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by James H. Richardson
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