get one's eye in

Definitions

1. To become accustomed to the playing conditions, and thus bring one's hand-eye coordination to a reasonable level.
   UK
2. To develop a perceptual skill, especially visual.
   UK

Examples

“Having thus got my "eye in" for Bledii, numerous casts in my drive⟳ and garden footpaths were explored, and turned out to be those of B. opacus”

“To know⟳ fiddles and judge⟳ them you must be always looking at them. For a time, at least, I got my eye in by dwelling on the best models.”

“Why, I myself, old hand as I am, after being away for some months about town, or looking at other things, can't get⟳ my eye in and down to it for two or three days; then it kind of comes natural.”

“Roberto then took three swings, but did not move⟳ his legs or hips, just the arms and wrists-he was merely getting his eye in.”

“He felt elated. Till now he had been living too much in the past, he decided. Time to get⟳ my eye in again.”

“She had now got her eye in. A 10000-ton tanker heading for Tunisia with powerful escort got no farther than the north coast of Sicily.”

“Once I'd got my eye in, it was quite impossible — without looking away first — to see⟳ the ceiling as flat again.”

“Someone who has 'got their eye in' has internalized an ability to draw⟳ to scale. While the new recruit stops all the time to take⟳ measurements, the drawing of someone with 'their eye in' flows.”

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