Someone at work suggested we ask another coworker to use her 'eagle eye' and look for errors in a flier. This brought to my mind the image of someone looking down from really high up, spotting things from very far away.Figuring that it was quite likely that I, not for the first time, was going a little too literal with an idiom, I looked it up:
eagle eyeOf course, it's too late for me now. I just keep picturing my coworker floating in the air while she proofreads something on the ground...
Unusually keen sight; also, keen intellectual vision. For example, Antiques dealers have an eagle eye for valuable objects, or A good manager has an eagle eye for employee errors. [Late 1500s]
Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Houghton Mifflin Company. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eagle eye (accessed: September 18, 2008).
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2 comments:
It makes me nervous when editors compare texts to prey.
No, no, just the mistakes are prey.
Little warm-blooded, heart-racing, fuzzy little prey...
(Actually the text we were discussing was marketing text by our Southeast Asia distributor. And it was riddled with fuzzy little mistakes.)
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