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