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look alive

Idioms  

  1. Act lively, hurry up, as in Look alive! This job has to be finished today. This phrase, often used as an imperative, today is more common in Britain than in America. [Mid-1800s]

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For the uninitiated, makeup is essential on camera not so much to make you look better — though that’s a bonus — but to make you look alive.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

If Larrimore’s women don’t quite look alive, it’s because their life force has diffused into the landscapes around them, or even into the rough weave of her canvases, clearly visible through unvarnished paint.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

“They look alive, and that’s because they’re responsive to the people who look at them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019

We wanted them to look alive and happy.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2019

I turned to the other two and said, ‘Stay here, and look alive, too. I’m going round the sentries.’

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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