on-guard

• “The news kept the market on-guard for more central bank action to weaken the currency.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Euro Idles Above $1.32 With Focus on Greece

• “The second is handsome, slender, well-built; it is a delight seeing him in an on-guard fencing position.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories

• “Not everybody can be on-guard 100% of the time against fleeting moments of candor -- little sound bites which, when taken out of context, can provide the opposing presidential campaign with a little bit of ammo.”

  Feingold: McCain "Calls 'Em As He Sees 'Em"

• “Although stakeholders in the organic community need to be on-guard, the flurry of e-mails and Internet postings suggesting that HR 875 will end organic farming as we know it seem to grossly exaggerate the risks.”

  Critical Pending Food Safety Legislation

• “If he comes to a 2d debate not as on-guard as he was last night, I think there's every reason to think he'll finally lose it.”

  Obama Leads By Over Five Points In Pre-Debate Tracking Polls

• “In the meantime, my father remained very on-guard where Carmine was concerned.”

  Simon & Schuster: This Family of Mine

• “Most distinctive was what Thomas describes as on-guard attendance.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “As writers, we need to be on-guard against the censorship of the marketplace, the censorship that could prevent our strong women characters from making it to the page in the first place.”

  Author! Author! » 2009 » April

• “It's very hard to sort of drop that wall and maybe not be so tough or on-guard in school.”

  Walk in My Shoes: Surviving the walk to school

• “Finally, we need to be on-guard against the politicization of this debate.”

  Bernard I. Finel: Is Terrorism Disappearing?

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