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center of attraction, the
Idioms and Phrases
Something or someone that attracts the most interest or curiosity. For example, The Ferris wheel is always the center of attraction at our carnival , or Jan is the center of attraction wherever she goes . This expression comes from physics, where since about 1770 it has denoted the point to which bodies tend by gravity or the action of centripetal force.Example Sentences
Placed at the head of the first table, our hero and heroine were at all times the center of attraction; the observed of all observers.
Two o'clock found me one of the throng pressing toward the center of attraction, the blue room.
The doctor swindledâHow we got evenâDiamond cut diamondâThe doctor peddling stove-pipe bracketsâHis first customerâHis mishap and demoralized conditionâThe doctor and myself invited to a country danceâHe the center of attractionâThe doctor in love with a cross-eyed girlâEngaged to take her homeâHis plan frustratedâHe gets even with meâWe conclude to diet himâThe landlady returnsâDoes not know the house.
She is the center of attraction, the guardian of the infantâs destiny; and none like she, can overrule the unfolding life and character of the child.
She laughed and talked; she was the center of attraction, the life of the fĂȘte.
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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 HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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