snap to attention

snap to (attention)

in. to come to attention; to look alert immediately. When they realized what was happening, they began to snap to.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jantine	yahn-TEE-nə	Dutch
Erich	E-rikh	German
Sergei	syer-GYAY (Russian), seer-GYAY (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian
Sharleen	shahr-LEEN	English
Maximilien	-	French
Darby	['da:bi]