in the eye
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The bill may be big, but for retailers, the beauty will remain strictly in the eye of the high-end beholder.
From Barron's
It was like Reuben was furious he hadn’t been able to catch Natalie out in the eye of the storm, and he wanted to let her know.
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Alicia was always like this, never quite looking you in the eye, possibly never even listening to you, almost certainly thinking about something else.
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When all the ruckus died down and Daniel had coughed up way more than one baby lizard’s worth of seawater, Daniel looked Zeke in the eye with his little grin and said, “Did you see me, though?”
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Norman turned his head to one side and looked Zeke in the eye for the first time.
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