Brewer's: Qui Vive?

(French). Who goes there? The challenge of a sentinel.

To be on the qui vive.
On the alert; to be quick and sharp; to be on the tip-toe of expectation, like a sentinel. (See above.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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