worm's-eye view

[ wurmz-ahy ]

/ ˈwɜrmzˌaɪ /

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noun

a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.

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Origin of worm's-eye view

First recorded in 1910–15; on the model of bird's-eye view

Words nearby worm's-eye view

worm lizard, worm out of, Worms, wormseed, wormseed oil, worm's-eye view, worm snake, worm wheel, wormwood, wormy, worn

How to use worm's-eye view in a sentence

In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
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There had long been another view, however, called “premillennialism.”
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Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
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The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
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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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His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
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The Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.
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As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.
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British Dictionary definitions for worm's-eye view

worm's eye view

noun

a view seen from below or from a more lowly or humble point

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