"Have half an eye on" nghĩa là gì?

Hóng gì thế em? :D Photo by Hasan Albari from Pexels

"Have half an eye on" hoặc "have half an ear on (someone or something)" có nghĩa là nhìn lén hoặc nghe lén ai, cái gì, hoặc tranh thủ nhìn trộm/nghe ngóng trong khi đang làm việc khác. 

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I'm usually thinking about the whole situation, analyzing (phân tích) it to check that it's good, but also making sure that I have half an eye on everything going on around me.

My highly informed, data-rich, deep-dive scouting (do thám) report on our opponents (đối thủ) this weekend, based on having one eye and half an ear on their televised Champions League game against Leipzig last night, is that Tottenham are a side that likes to cede possession (nhượng quyền sở hữu), get bodies behind the ball and hope that the opposition misses the plethora of chances (nhiều cơ hội) that it grants them even so.

One of the reasons given for Operation Peace Spring (Chiến dịch Mùa xuân Hòa bình) was to create space for two million Syrian refugees (người tị nạn). Though publicly this was meant to be from the 3.6 million already in Turkey, it is not overly cynical (chỉ trích) to think Erdogan had half an eye on Idlib. One possible future tradeoff (đánh đổi) with Russia may be to allow Turkey to expand the Peace Spring zone to house more displaced Syrians. 

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