broad awake

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broad awake (not comparable)

  1. wide awake
    • 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.