Idiom
double taker
Meaning
Something causing someone to do a double take.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That bright red car is a real double taker.”
“Her unusual outfit was such a double taker that people stopped walking to stare as she passed.”
“The architect designed the building with such strange, gravity-defying angles that it became an instant double taker for every passerby in the city.”
Examples
simple
“That bright red car is a real double taker.”
contextual
“Her unusual outfit was such a double taker that people stopped walking to stare as she passed.”
complex
“The architect designed the building with such strange, gravity-defying angles that it became an instant double taker for every passerby in the city.”
Origin
From double take + -er.
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