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out of the corner of one's eye



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Idioms and Phrases

Glancing casually or surreptitiously, as in Out of the corner of my eye I saw Justin walking out the door . This expression refers to looking sideways at something rather than directly.
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Example Sentences

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The squares appear to ripple and shimmer as if animated, although this effect is almost a fugitive motion, as if glimpsed out of the corner of one’s eye.

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And then, out of the corner of one's eye, creeping up the pillow, and hugely magnified by proximity, another monstrous brute appears.

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Then the decline had been perceived as one sometimes perceives a thing in the background out of the corner of one's eye.

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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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