# double taker

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/double-taker
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

Something causing someone to do a double take.

## 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.

## Origin

From double take + -er.

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