The NSF is comfortable giving money to researchers in large universities, but they get wary when you tell them your office is in a commercial strip center between a balloon shop and a day-care center for the developmentally disabled.
He might look at you and smile but if he walks away, don't try it again in a hurry or else he might get wary of you!
But by the end of the blitz, he was beginning to get wary of the city.
Later, I'd get wary when he'd show up on some televised event and plunk out an earnest "Hey Jude".
Pedestrians, in the twilight, got wary stares from people on their porches.
Creditors must pay for failures, but when creditors get wary, the authorities rush to prop up markets.
Restaurateurs, trying to get wary diners to eat the stuff, have taken to calling it Mexican truffle, but, served here in a thick soup topped with Cotija cheese, it proves to have a sweeter, less intense taste.
A nursery-school teacher tipped us off to the fact that child psychologists are getting wary of testing children, having come to believe that the child is so sensitive an organism that the very act of testing alters his behavior.
Drawing a swastika on a piece of paper, he said through a translator from Tigrinya into German: "When someone came and drew this on our door one day we started to get wary of going out, particularly after we were spat on and given the finger so many times.
By Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, January 21 , 1950 P. 17A nursery-school teacher tipped us off to the fact that child psychologists are getting wary of testing children, having come to believe that the child is so sensitive an organism that the very act of testing alters his behavior.
