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.
See also: attention, snap

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Domitila-Spanish, Portuguese
NellieNEL-eeEnglish
Deep-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi
Brigittebree-GI-tə (German), bree-ZHEET (French)German, French
My-Swedish
Gage[geidʒ]