Meaning of keep tabs on | Babel Free

Definitions

To monitor; to keep track of; to watch.

idiomatic

Examples

“If you are careful to keep tabs on your finances, you should be able to stay within a budget.”

“The police kept close tabs on him during the holidays.”

“He might have spent the hours camped under the trees of the more remote meadow, whence in the brilliant moonlight he could keep tabs on the trails.”

“I'll catch him—I'll trip him up—I'll keep tabs on his arguments.”

“Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy.”

“Nadal, absent from the draw for the first time nearly two decades, said he won’t watch it all from afar, but he will be keeping tabs.”

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