heads-up

heads-up
{adj.}, {informal} Wide-awake; alert; watchful; intelligent. * /You must play hard, heads-up baseball to win this game./ Compare: ON ONE'S TOES, ON THE BALL.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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