OUT OF THE CORNER OF ONE'S EYE Definition & Meaning

out of the corner of one's eye

Glancing casually or surreptitiously, as in Out of the corner of my eye I saw Justin walking out the door. This expression refers to looking sideways at something rather than directly.

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The squares appear to ripple and shimmer as if animated, although this effect is almost a fugitive motion, as if glimpsed out of the corner of one’s eye.

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And then, out of the corner of one's eye, creeping up the pillow, and hugely magnified by proximity, another monstrous brute appears.

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Then the decline had been perceived as one sometimes perceives a thing in the background out of the corner of one's eye.

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out of the blue Out of the frying pan, into the fire

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out of the corner of one's eye

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