Idiom
catch the eye
Meaning
To attract the attention
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That bright red dress really catches the eye.”
“She placed the most colorful flowers in the front window to catch the eye of people walking past the shop.”
“The subtle shift in the artist's color palette was designed to catch the eye of the critic, who had previously dismissed the entire collection as uninspired.”
Examples
simple
“That bright red dress really catches the eye.”
contextual
“She placed the most colorful flowers in the front window to catch the eye of people walking past the shop.”
complex
“The subtle shift in the artist's color palette was designed to catch the eye of the critic, who had previously dismissed the entire collection as uninspired.”
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