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bird's eye view
Idioms and Phrases
An overview, as in This balcony gives us a bird's eye view of the town , or This course gives you a bird's eye view of history—from Eolithic man to the Gulf War in one semester . This expression can be used literally, for a panoramic view such as a bird might see, as well as figuratively. [c. 1600]Example Sentences
From a bird’s eye view, Linting’s candidacy cleaves to many patterns typical of the modern GOP.
From my ‘on the ground’ vantage point, I have a bird's eye view of the airport wheelchair attendants who are people of color straining to push disabled and obese RNC attendees to their gates for their departure flights back home.
Others will control in-game cameras on the ground or in the air, taking a bird's eye view of the match.
"It's much easier to troubleshoot models when they are interpretable. And in this case, the interpretable model was actually more accurate. It also provides a bird's eye view of the types of anomalous electrical signals that occur in the brain, which is really useful for care of critically ill patients."
Well, again, because we had the rights to the article, and we were only doing a bird's eye view of the party.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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