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qui vive

  [kee veev]
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–noun
1. (italics) French. who goes there?
—Idiom
2. on the qui vive, on the alert; watchful: Special guards were on the qui vive for trespassers.
Origin:
1720–30; < F lit., (long) live who? (i.e., on whose side are you?)
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qui vive   (kē vēv')   
n.  A sentinel's challenge.

[French, (long) live who? (a sentry's challenge to determine a person's political sympathies) : qui, who + vive, third person sing. present subjunctive of vivre, to live.]
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