keep your eye on the ball

Meaning

• to give your attention to what you are doing at the time.ou are doing or want to archieve.
• to give your complete attention to what y
• to watch or follow the ball carefully, especially when one is playing a ball game.
• We should not lose our direction of doing something.

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Examples

1. You have to keep your eye on the ball in business.
2. We have to keep our eye on the ball in our studies.
3. We need to keep our eye on the ball and continue to encourage our students.

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