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

To everyone's despair, she intruded maliciously: "To my thinking, the finding of my emerald would show to advantage the cut of our aristocratic wits."

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

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 O'Connor, John Lawrence

Luciana, like all persons of her sort, who never can distinguish between where they show to advantage and where to disadvantage, now determined to try her fortune in reciting.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno