wise to
idiom
informal
: not fooled by (someone or something) : aware of (something, especially something dishonest)
I'm wise to you. I know what you're doing.
When she got wise to his scheme, she left.
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How Can Businesses Prepare? Financial institutions (mainly banks) would be wise to tap industry engineers to build an end-to-end tech solution to help stay ahead of this modern-day crime.
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Indranil Debnath, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
The Padres will need more from Darvish this season, but, given his age, would be wise to add depth options to guard against Father Time pulling him away from the team a time or two.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
The Pats would be wise to surround their tent-pole talents, Drake Maye and Christian Gonzalez, with some of the best wide receivers (Tee Higgins and Chris Godwin) and offensive tackles (Ronnie Stanley Jr.) in free agency, then look at the B-listers on the market.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
Republicans would be wise to leave the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act in place because roughly 85 percent of the climate law's funding for clean energy projects and the jobs that go with it is slated for districts that voted for Trump, Granholm said.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Indranil Debnath, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
The Padres will need more from Darvish this season, but, given his age, would be wise to add depth options to guard against Father Time pulling him away from the team a time or two.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
The Pats would be wise to surround their tent-pole talents, Drake Maye and Christian Gonzalez, with some of the best wide receivers (Tee Higgins and Chris Godwin) and offensive tackles (Ronnie Stanley Jr.) in free agency, then look at the B-listers on the market.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
Republicans would be wise to leave the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act in place because roughly 85 percent of the climate law's funding for clean energy projects and the jobs that go with it is slated for districts that voted for Trump, Granholm said.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Wise to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wise%20to. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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