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definitions
verb
- to stop daydreaming; to become more focused on and aware of the current situation; to get back in touch with reality
Then my father switched over to scolding me in English ... "Wake up your idea, man, Hafiz! Wake up your funny idea!"
— 2023, Alfian Sa'at. Corridor: 12 Short Stories, "Umbrella". Ethos Books. ISBN: 9789811404733
He's a druggie and a dealer and a criminal, and you guys are pretty much done. Plus, he's got a death sentence! Wake up your idea! Don't you care about the A Levels?
— 2018, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. Go Home!. Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN: 9781936932030
If she continues to be a bum,
One day she's gonna see negative income.
Therefore she tells herself to wake up her idea,
And stop dreaming of being in Korea.
— 2022, Meiko. My Pocket-Ful of Poems, "Lifes a Pain". Partridge Publishing Singapore. ISBN: 9781543770902
usage notes
Often imperative. While not actually ungrammatical in English, the phrase is not used, but phrases in a similar vein such as wake up, wake up to reality, or wake up to the idea do exist.
An intensifying adjective is commonly inserted before the word 'idea', e.g. 'wake up your bloody idea'.