keep tabs on | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Tomonitor; to keeptrackof; towatch.If you are careful tokeep tabs onyour finances, you should be able to stay within a budget.The policekeptclosetabs onhim during the holidays.1910,Stewart Edward White, chapter 85, inThe Rules of the Game:He might have spent the hours camped under the trees of the more remote meadow, whence in the brilliant moonlight he couldkeep tabs onthe trails.1919,Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 16, inRainbow Valley:I'll catch him—I'll trip him up—I'llkeep tabs onhis arguments.2010, Andrew Lee Butters, “Why the U.S. Is Back on the Road to Damascus”, inTime:Syria's much feared state-security apparatuskeepsclosetabs oneveryone entering and leaving the embassy.2023May 18,Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:Nadal, absent from the draw for the first time nearly two decades, said he won’t watch it all from afar, but he will bekeeping tabs.

Examples:

EN: You wouldn't keep tabs on the guy that double-crossed you.
ES: Claro, Ace. No ibas a saber dónde está el hombre que te traicionó.
EN: I want you to keep tabs on the professor here.
ES: - Quiero que vigiles al profesor. - Claro.
EN: I gotta keep tabs on him.
ES: Tengo que mantenerme en contacto.
EN: I was hired by a middle-aged Romeo to keep tabs on his pretty young thing... who is recuperating on an ocean voyage.
ES: Me contrató un Romeo de edad madura para vigilar a su hermosura... que está recuperándose en un viaje por el mar.
EN: Well, let's see. We try to keep tabs on all foreigners in Ankara as every other one is an agent.
ES: Tratamos de tener fichas de todos los extranjeros de Ankara.
EN: I'll keep tabs on you.
ES: Lo estaré observando.
EN: Do you think he would let a man sail with a crew of cut-throats... And not keep tabs on him?
ES: La muerte de Boyle no fue un accidente.
EN: Visiting cells is part of my job, helps me keep tabs on the men.
ES: Las visitas a las celdas son mi, trabajo. Vigilar.
EN: You know, you're a swell guy, Steve. But you want to keep tabs on me.
ES: Eres un chico fantástico, Steve pero no me quieres perder de vista.
EN: I want you to keep tabs on the professor.
ES: Quiero que vigiles al profesor.
EN: I like to keep tabs on a guy who's going up in the world so rapidly.
ES: Me gusta tener controlado a alguien que sube con tanta rapidez.
EN: They'll enable us to keep tabs on the operation.
ES: Nos permitirán seguir de cerca la operación.
EN: No, he just wants to keep tabs on his daughter.
ES: No, lo que quiere es controlar qué hace su hija.
EN: You keep tabs on these boys.
ES: Vigílalos de cerca. Sí.
EN: Just to keep tabs on you baby.
ES: Para seguir aumentando la cuenta contigo.

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