center of attraction, the

Idioms  

1. Something or someone that attracts the most interest or curiosity. For example, The Ferris wheel is always the center of attraction at our carnival, or Jan is the center of attraction wherever she goes. This expression comes from physics, where since about 1770 it has denoted the point to which bodies tend by gravity or the action of centripetal force.

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center of attraction, the

Claude was everywhere present, the center of attraction, the observed of all observers.

From Homespun Tales by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

She laughed and talked; she was the center of attraction, the life of the fête.

From Wife in Name Only by Charlotte M. Brame

The shoe became the center of attraction, the center of all eyes.

From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Naturally the center of attraction, the young girl found herself forced to dance often.

From A Man and His Money by Frederic Stewart Isham

Placed at the head of the first table, our hero and heroine were at all times the center of attraction; the observed of all observers.

From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson