keep watch

keep watch
(keep watch (and ward))
1) дежурить
2) сторожить, охранять; держать под замком; см. тж. watch and ward

Mrs. Pipchin had kept watch and ward over the Paul and his sister for nearly twelve months. (Ch. Dickens, ‘Dombey and Son’, ch. XI) — Около года миссис Пипчин охраняла и опекала маленького Поля и его сестру.

...I have twice in the last three weeks been over to our old camp in order to see out Negro who still kept watch and ward below the cliff. (A. C. Doyle, ‘The Lost World’, ch. XV) — ...за последние три недели я дважды ходил в наш старый лагерь проведать Самбо, который по-прежнему оставался на своем посту у подножья горного кряжа.

He fell asleep at his post, and in a few minutes he is going to feel very sorry that he didn't keep a better Spartan watch and ward. (S. O'Casey, ‘I Knock at the Door’, ‘Crime and Punishment’) — ...мальчишка заснул на посту, через несколько минут он весьма пожалеет, что не сумел подражать спартанцам в их добродетелях - выносливости и неусыпной бдительности.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • keep watch — ► keep watch stay on the lookout for danger or trouble. Main Entry: ↑watch …   English terms dictionary

  • keep watch — index check (inspect), patrol, police, survey (examine) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • keep watch — {v. phr.} To be vigilant; be alert; guard. * /The police have asked the neighborhood to keep watch against an escaped convict./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • keep watch — {v. phr.} To be vigilant; be alert; guard. * /The police have asked the neighborhood to keep watch against an escaped convict./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • keep\ watch — v. phr. To be vigilant; be alert; guard. The police have asked the neighborhood to keep watch against an escaped convict …   Словарь американских идиом

  • keep watch over — index preserve Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • keep watch — verb To guard; to watch over someone or something. In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell …   Wiktionary

  • keep watch — stay on the lookout for danger or trouble. → watch …   English new terms dictionary

  • keep watch — stay on the lookout for danger or trouble …   Useful english dictionary

  • Watch — (w[o^]ch), n. [OE. wacche, AS. w[ae]cce, fr. wacian to wake; akin to D. wacht, waak, G. wacht, wache. [root]134. See {Wake}, v. i. ] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Watch and ward — Watch Watch (w[o^]ch), n. [OE. wacche, AS. w[ae]cce, fr. wacian to wake; akin to D. wacht, waak, G. wacht, wache. [root]134. See {Wake}, v. i. ] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English


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