Meaning of TO HAVE AN EYE FOR - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say that you have an
eye for something it means that you're really,
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really good at it and we're usually talking
about something visual.
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A great example would be, maybe you have a
sister who's just really, really good at home
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decorating.
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She's really good at picking out paint colours
for different rooms, and she's really good
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at picking out furniture and carpet, or flooring,
to make a room look really, really cool.
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You would say that she really has an eye for
decorating.
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She really has an eye for it.
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She's really good at it!
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Maybe you have a cousin who's just really,
really good at painting cars, again something
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visual, maybe they're just really good at
picking out two different paint colours to
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paint a car and it just looks amazing when
they're done.
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You would say that they have a real eye for
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