Meaning of get one's eye in | Babel Free

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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