If you are keeping an eye out while someone is shoplifting you will be charged as an accomplice to the crime. It's not worth it.
If someone does that there a shoplifter who is shoplifting. Shoplifting is illegal,
An excellent expression. To keep an eye, or to keep an eye on things means to maintain a watchful eye. You monitor what is happening with an appropriate zeal to the occasion. Another idiom would be, to keep an eye peeled. It means you are watching and protecting something, or someone.
It's called "Guilt by Association". You both get charged!
The idiom "keep an eye out for" refers to watching for something or someone. An example of a sentence using the idiom would be: Jeff should be arriving soon, so keep an eye out for him.
The image is of you pointing an eye at something or someone. It means to watch carefully.
So that you can keep an eye on what they are up to!
spying or looking someone all the time
keep one's eye on the prizean eye for an eyesleep with one eye openkeep your eye on the ballgive someone the evil eyehit the bull's eyehave a bird's eye viewget some shut eye (sleep)turn a blind eye to
Shoplifting is a misdemeanor.
Thomas Brad Bishop has written: 'The law of shoplifting' -- subject(s): Shoplifting 'The law of shoplifting' -- subject(s): Shoplifting
Be stopped for shoplifting. That sounds like a good idea. Shoplifting should be stopped.
A nightwatchman is someone employed to keep an eye on a building site, or some other establishment, during the night.