Expression: Sauter aux yeux

Pronunciation: [so tay o zyeu]

Meaning: to be obvious, strikingly evident

Literal translation: to leap to the eyes

Register: normal

Notes: The French expression sauter aux yeux offers a vivid description of what it feels like when something is obvious, as if the evidence has leapt right up to your eyes.

Examples

   Tu es fâché, cela saute aux yeux.
   You're obviously angry; It's blindingly obvious that you're angry.


   L'erreur à la première page m'a sauté aux yeux.
   The mistake on the first page was strikingly evident; The mistake leapt off the first page at me.

Synonyms:
   c'est évident
   c'est clair
   crever les yeux - ça crève les yeux (literally, "it bursts the eyes")

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