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wake-up

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wake-up
n
1. Austral informal an alert or intelligent person
be a wake-up to Austral informal to be fully alert to (a person, thing, action, etc.)
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However, maybe it is something we needed - an eye-opener or a wake-up call - as soon as you stop doing the right things in football it comes back to bite you.
Football: CUP HEROES MAKE PARS OF IT; DUNFERMLINE 4 QUEEN OF THE ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
DANNY INVINCIBILE has urged his team-mates to use Kilmarnock's Scottish Cup defeat by Morton as a wake-up call to help them get their season back on track.
Football: Kil or cure time for us; SCOTTISH CUP.. by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
It was a wake-up call and we knew then that we had only one goal andthat was to finish first.
Rugby League: Saints shocked out of cruise mode says Cunningham by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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