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hit between the eyes
Idioms and Phrases
Make someone suddenly aware of something, have a sudden impact on. For example, News of their divorce hit me right between the eyes . [ Colloquial ; early 1900s]Example Sentences
Chiefs coaches have devised drills to work on them so that his receivers won’t get hit between the eyes by a ball they don’t see coming.
One, Nicholas Slatten, was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in what jurors found was the premeditated shooting of a medical student hit between the eyes.
Even if you manage to pause your constant grief, you're hit between the eyes with another statistic, another story.
Police in riot gear shot tear gas and projectiles at protesters, hospitalizing one 59-year-old woman who was hit between the eyes by what appeared to be a beanbag round.
In the past week, a grandmother in La Mesa, California, was hospitalized in an intensive care unit after being hit between the eyes with a rubber bullet.
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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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