show to advantage
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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
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 H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
To make the river show to advantage, it will be necessary to arrange it in the form of an inclined plane.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head
Thunderer did not show to advantage at any stage of the race, but he finally managed to beat his stablemate, he finishing fifth, and Dominant seventh.
From History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 by John Lawrence O'Connor
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