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catch someone's eye
Idioms and Phrases
Attract someone's attention, as in That window display really catches my eye . [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
A clean house with fresh paint everywhere will catch someoneâs eye before a disorganized mess will.
âHe did things like color-coding the boxes, blue for men, green for women and orange for boys, so you could see what inventory you had right away. He would only open stores that had a free right-hand exterior wall because he thought that was the best place to catch someoneâs eye if they were driving by.â
The more he scores, the more passes he intercepts, the more tackles he makes, the more likely he is to catch someoneâs eye.
They like to march between the shouting students and the masked anti-fascists, waving to onlookers and hoping to catch someoneâs eye long enough to exchange a smile.
âIâm looking around to catch someoneâs eyeâyou know, maybe raise an eyebrowâbut theyâre all just looking straight ahead with these blank faces. Theyâre scared. Theyâre frozen with fear.â
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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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