ALL meanings of keep one's wits about one
wit
K k - noun keep one's wits about one the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee. 1
- noun keep one's wits about one speech or writing showing such perception and expression. Synonyms: banter, joking, witticism, quip, raillery, badinage, persiflage; bon mot. 1
- noun keep one's wits about one a person having or noted for such perception and expression. Synonyms: wag, jester, epigrammatist, satirist. 1
- noun keep one's wits about one understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness. Synonyms: wisdom, sense, mind. 1
- noun keep one's wits about one Usually, wits. powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness: using one's wits to get ahead. Synonyms: cleverness, cunning, wisdom, insight, perspicacity, sacaciousness, acumen. mental faculties; senses: to lose one's wits; frightened out of one's wits. Synonyms: mind, sanity; brains, marbles. 1
- idioms keep one's wits about one at one's wit's end, at the end of one's ideas or mental resources; perplexed: My two-year-old won't eat anything but pizza, and I'm at my wit's end. 1
- idioms keep one's wits about one keep / have one's wits about one, to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything: to keep your wits about you in a crisis. 1
- idioms keep one's wits about one live by one's wits, to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously: We traveled around the world, living by our wits. 1
- verb keep one's wits about one Alternative form of have one's wits about one. 0
- noun keep one's wits about one to remain mentally alert; function with undiminished acumen, as in an emergency 0