Catch The Audience’s Eye

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🗓️ Idiom: Catch the Audience’s Eye (v)

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💬 Meaning

• To attract the attention of the audience
• To visually or mentally engage listeners in a way that draws their focus

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🧠 Example Sentences

• The presenter’s bold slide design caught the audience’s eye immediately.
• She used a powerful opening statement to catch the audience’s eye.
• If you want to make an impact, you need to catch the audience’s eye from the start.

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🏛️ Origin

This phrase comes from the older idiom “catch someone’s eye,” first used in the 1700s. It originally meant attracting someone’s gaze (make someone want to look more). Later it came to mean getting their attention or interest.

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📝 Practice Exercises

1. Fill in the blank:
The speaker used a pretty image to __________.

Answer

catch the audience’s eye

2. Choose the correct meaning of “catch the audience’s eye”:
A) Ignore the audience
B) Attract the audience’s attention
C) Close your eyes during a speech

Answer

B) Attract the audience’s attention

3. Change the sentence using “catch the audience’s eye”:
“She used bright colors on her slides to grab attention.”

Answer

She used bright colors on her slides to catch the audience’s eye.

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