spring to attention



spring to attention

to move quickly to assume the military posture of attention. The recruit sprang to attention.
See also: attention, spring

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Siors-Welsh
Blagoy-Bulgarian
OlgaOL-gah (Russian), AWL-gah (Polish, German)Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Latvian, Hungarian, Itali
Tenzin-Tibetan, Bhutanese
Valentinianus-Ancient Roman
Nirupama-Indian, Hindi, Kannada