wise up
mainly US informal— phrasal verb with wise uk/waɪz/us/waɪz/verb
to start to understand a situation or fact and believe what you hear about it, even if it is difficult or unpleasant:
Those who think this is a harmless recreational drug should wise up.
It's about time employers wised up to the fact that employees who are happy work more efficiently.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- take sth in
- twig
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