keep track

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To keep track is to stay aware of how something is going. Not losing the thread of it.

It takes of, and keeping track of spending, of time or of people is what lists and spreadsheets exist for. The phrase is usually admitted in the negative, since losing track of something is the commoner experience. Losing track of time is a compliment to whatever you were doing. The image comes from following an animal's tracks, which is exactly what the phrase describes.

Definitions of keep track

1phrasekeep trackTo remain aware of the progress or whereabouts of something.B1
“It is impossible to keep track of every change.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Thinking & Memory

First appears in chapter 32 of A Man Called Ove.

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keep track

phraseB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To keep track is to stay aware of how something is going. Not losing the thread of it.

Definitions of keep track

1phrasekeep trackTo remain aware of the progress or whereabouts of something.B1
“It is impossible to keep track of every change.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Thinking & Memory

First appears in chapter 32 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word