more than meets the eye

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A hidden significance, greater than is first apparent, as in This agreement involves more than meets the eye. [Mid-1800s]

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

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But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
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Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.
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He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
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But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
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