hit between the eyes

1. Make someone suddenly aware of something, have a sudden impact on. For example, News of their divorce hit me right between the eyes. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

Example Sentences

Chiefs coaches have devised drills to work on them so that his receivers won’t get hit between the eyes by a ball they don’t see coming.

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One, Nicholas Slatten, was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in what jurors found was the premeditated shooting of a medical student hit between the eyes.

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Even if you manage to pause your constant grief, you're hit between the eyes with another statistic, another story.

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Police in riot gear shot tear gas and projectiles at protesters, hospitalizing one 59-year-old woman who was hit between the eyes by what appeared to be a beanbag round.

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In the past week, a grandmother in La Mesa, California, was hospitalized in an intensive care unit after being hit between the eyes with a rubber bullet.

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