"keep one's eye in" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> one's eye in"
      },
      "expansion": "keep one's eye in (third-person singular simple present keeps one's eye in, present participle keeping one's eye in, simple past and past participle kept one's eye in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906 July 19, Mr. Crooks, The parliamentary debates, volume 161",
          "text": "A man must have some work to keep his eye in and his muscles at work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, John Le Carré, A Small Town in Germany, page 29",
          "text": "He'd have a beer first, just to keep his eye in; and afterwards he would have a little of the hard stuff.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981 July, Nadine Gorimer, “July's People”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 6, number 6, page 46",
          "text": "He went trap-shooting to keep his eye in, out of season",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep in practice."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_one's_eye_in-en-verb-IRZBA5NU",
      "links": [
        [
          "keep in practice",
          "keep in practice"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK) To keep in practice."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "get one's eye in"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep one's eye in"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's eye in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> one's eye in"
      },
      "expansion": "keep one's eye in (third-person singular simple present keeps one's eye in, present participle keeping one's eye in, simple past and past participle kept one's eye in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "get one's eye in"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906 July 19, Mr. Crooks, The parliamentary debates, volume 161",
          "text": "A man must have some work to keep his eye in and his muscles at work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, John Le Carré, A Small Town in Germany, page 29",
          "text": "He'd have a beer first, just to keep his eye in; and afterwards he would have a little of the hard stuff.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981 July, Nadine Gorimer, “July's People”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 6, number 6, page 46",
          "text": "He went trap-shooting to keep his eye in, out of season",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep in practice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "keep in practice",
          "keep in practice"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK) To keep in practice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep one's eye in"
}