public eye
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- (with definite article) The focus of public attention; the limelight.
- 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter X, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 97:
- The chief function of an English journal is that of all other journals the world over: it must keep the public eye fixed admiringly upon certain things, and keep it diligently diverted from certain others.
- 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 10, in The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England:
- [T]here had been the heavy work of seeing the interviewers, signing autograph-books, sitting to photographers, writing testimonials for patent medicines, and the thousand and one other tasks, burdensome but unavoidable, of the man who is in the public eye.
- 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 255:
- It would be too much to imagine that improving stations will alone create a much needed new image in the public eye; a smartly turned out station staff is a very necessary complement to a smart station.
- 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, “Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'”, in The Guardian, UK:
- The president and her advisers seem convinced that by keeping the issue of the Falklands in the public eye she can embarrass London into eventual negotiations.
- 2023 June 26, Alexandra Alter, Elizabeth A. Harris, quoting Lincoln Michel, “How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “As any author who is moderately in the public eye, you do always worry that if you get into a fight with someone on Twitter about politics or sports or even a Marvel movie, some angry fans might go leave one-star reviews in retaliation,” he said.
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focus of public attention
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- “public eye”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.