on the alert



agile, alert, alive, attentive, awake, bright, keen, nimble, on the ball, on the job, prompt, quick, ready, sharp, sleepless,

   lightning war - aggression, air raid, assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, bombardment, breakthrough, cannonade, charge, counter-attack, diversion, drive, infiltration, mugging, offence,

   twenty-five percent - farthing, fourth, quarter, quarto, two bits ,

   map projection - atlas, cartography, chart, globe, index, latitude, legend, longitude, map, map maker, meridian, parallel, projection, road map, scale,

   odds - advantage, agreement to disagree, allowance, aptitude, asymmetry, at daggers drawn, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, bulge, chance, chances, clashing, conflicting, contrariety,

   reverse of fortune - check, comedown, descent, down, reversal, reverse, setback, throwback ,

   individualistic - absolute, acquisitive, ambitious for self, autistic, autonomous, bourgeois, capitalist, careerist, certain, concrete, defined, definite, detailed, determinate, different,

   magnet - ambition, catch, centre of attraction, centre of consciousness, centre of interest, cynosure, dearest wish, desideratum, desire, focal point, focus, focus of attention, forbidden fruit, glimmering goal, golden vision,

   jeopardized - cornered, in extremis, on the spot, stake, threatened ,

   turning inside out - introversion, retroflexion, reversal, reversion, revulsion, transposition ,

   dweller - addressee, artist-in-residence, denizen, habitant, house detective, incumbent, inhabitant, inmate, inpatient, intern, live-in maid, liver, occupant, occupier, resident,