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

As a matter of fact Elvesdon did show to advantage to the accompaniment of a tinge of officialdom, but, we are careful to emphasise, only at the proper time and place.

From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram

The Tiger at present certainly did not show to advantage.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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)