Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
"more than meets the eye"
English answer:
a lot more than is immediately visible
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RHELLER
Aug 22, 2004 11:33
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English term
Sanjeev
than meets the eye
English
Tech/Engineering
Electronics / Elect Eng
To ensure your next cable pull runs smoothly, you must understand the proper techniques for handling cable and plan ahead to avoid complications. Ask anyone who's ever done it. There is much more to pulling cable for telecommunications installations THAN MEETS THE EYE.
How would you explain the expression in capital letters. Thanks
How would you explain the expression in capital letters. Thanks
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than is immediately visible
there's a lot more to it
it takes experience and work
it is not easy
Idiom, Meaning, Example. there's more than meets the eye, part of the story has not been told, In a government scandal, there's always more than meets the eye. ...
home.t-online.de/home/toni.goeller/idiom_wm/id625.htm
... Thesaurus: flirt with, leer at, ogle, tease, come on to. Idiom: more than meets the eye: More complicated or difficult, etc than appearances suggest. ...
www.allwords.com/word-more than meets the eye.html
it takes experience and work
it is not easy
Idiom, Meaning, Example. there's more than meets the eye, part of the story has not been told, In a government scandal, there's always more than meets the eye. ...
home.t-online.de/home/toni.goeller/idiom_wm/id625.htm
... Thesaurus: flirt with, leer at, ogle, tease, come on to. Idiom: more than meets the eye: More complicated or difficult, etc than appearances suggest. ...
www.allwords.com/word-more than meets the eye.html
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Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
United States
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English
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US Court Cert. 1980 Ph.D. 1981
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THAT APPEARS OBVIOUS
Mike :)
Peer comment(s):
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cjperera
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Ramesh Madhavan
: ....than what appears to be obvious :-))
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ohemulen
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Maria Luisa Duarte
Spain
Spain
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Spain
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Much more than what it Seems
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Saleh Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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Judgement with the bare eyes is not enough.
After pulling the cables, if you look at the cables with bare eyes, you may become satisfied, but this is not enough. You have to understand the proper techniques for handling cables. Judgement with the bare eyes is not enough.
Peer comment(s):
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cjperera
: it's an idiom. 'bare eyes' leads me to understand that i should use a microscope, for example, and this is not exactly correct...
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chica nueva
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than you thought at the beginning
be more to this than meets the eye = If there is more to something than meets the eye, it is more difficult to understand or involves more things than you thought at the beginning.
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