how does that grab you?

Idioms

What do you think of that? For example, They want to put his name at the top of the masthead—how does that grab you? This expression employs the verb grab in the sense of “excite one's interest or attention.” [Slang; early 1900s]

Example Sentences

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She surrounds her hit single, How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?, with a battery of cool and cruel items like Sorry 'Bout That and Baby Cried All Night.

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