Idiom
raise one's eyebrows
Meaning
Of a person, to be surprised.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His strange comment made everyone raise their eyebrows.”
“When the manager announced the sudden change in policy, the employees raised their eyebrows in surprise.”
“The guests raised their eyebrows in collective astonishment when the host revealed the secret he had kept for so many years.”
Examples
simple
“His strange comment made everyone raise their eyebrows.”
contextual
“When the manager announced the sudden change in policy, the employees raised their eyebrows in surprise.”
complex
“The guests raised their eyebrows in collective astonishment when the host revealed the secret he had kept for so many years.”
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