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catch one's eye

[catch one's eye] {v. phr.}

To attract your attention.

/I caught his eye as he moved through the crowd, and waved at him to come over./

/The dress in the window caught her eye when she passed the store./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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