look lively

English

Verb

look lively (third-person singular simple present looks lively, present participle looking lively, simple past and past participle looked lively)

  1. (imperative) Synonym of look alive.
    • 1959 June, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:
      The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers[sic] well for the future.
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