show to advantage

Idioms  

1. Also,. Display in a flattering way, benefit, as in This lighting shows the paintings to advantage, or Your extensive use of quotations shows your learning to good advantage. [Mid-1300s]

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Example Sentences

On this occasion, however, it unluckily did not show to advantage.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011

If he does not show to advantage in a new role he may shelve it for a while, as he seems to be doing with Manrico in Il Trovatore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fourteenthly.—Stars and pretty women at a ball don't show to advantage by daylight.

From Happy-Thought Hall by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Others would carve various devices upon 184 their breasts and shoulders, and raise the skin in the same manner to make the scars show to advantage after the wound was healed.

From A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy)

In no other part of cookery does the skill of the cook show to advantage as in the way in which the various sauces are prepared and served.

From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Wilson, Mary A.