wise up
Example Sentences
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It’s a scam, of course, one that only he knows is happening and it requires him and his hoodwinked team to occasionally hit the road before suckers wise up and want their money back.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023
There are deals being signed left and right, they say, as more people wise up.
From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022
Congratulations to the Braves, and to the Dodgers … wise up!
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2021
Gray, the former Sanders press secretary, wishes all progressives would wise up and call themselves leftists, but she understands these semantic discussions are taking place among a tiny subset of highly engaged citizens.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2021
A surgeon, by licence and assent of such as were wise, up rose, and to Meliboeus said as ye may hear.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
