A chiefly British idiom meaning to maintain one's skill or sharpness through continued practice.
A chiefly British idiom meaning to maintain one's skill or sharpness through continued practice. Originally from cricket and other target-oriented sports, where keeping your eye in means staying calibrated through regular play. Now used more broadly for any skill that requires regular upkeep to avoid going rusty.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(chiefly, UK) To keep in practice.
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