broad awake
adj1
wide awake
- Ah, that is kind, dear mother; and see now How broad awake I am, and how so smart I'm finishing my work since you relate These pretty tales.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 90:
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VII The felon Rufus Dawes had stretched himself in his bunk and tried to sleep. But though he was tired and sore, and his head felt like lead, he could not but keep broad awake.