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Mia Le
2021-02-07 08:02
Stand/stick out like a sore thumb informal
If someone or something stands/sticks out like a sore thumb, everyone notices them because they are very different from the people or things around them.
The dress codes of the wedding are blue and green, but Liza wore the red dress - she stuck out like a sore thumb.
Jack is sticking out like a sore thumb with his Hawaii T-shirt in the cold December air.
The scare of sticking out like a sore thumb makes Anna try to copy the way her colleagues wear, but she doesn't feel happy after all.
To do something differently
To be totally different from something.
What one person finds pleasant, delightful, or advantageous may be hated by another.
Different people like or do different things.
If two things or two people are poles/worlds apart, they are totally different from each other in behavior or opinions.
The verb "stand/stick" should be conjugated according to its tense.
Based on the research of Mary McMahon in Wisegeek, the phrase “it sticks out like a sore thumb” since at least the middle of the 16th century, and the idiom is probably much older. The phrase also experienced a brief heyday in the 1940s, thanks to its appearance in the popular Perry Mason series of detective novels.
Do you see anything wrong?
1. To punch a hole in one's ticket to show that they have paid for a ride
2. To do something that allows one to go further in a competition or to be promoted at work
1. Please, tell me if I forget to punch your ticket.
2. With a view to punching my ticket to the final, I did whatever it takes to win this round.
