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Idioms and Phrases

Heed, be attentive to, as in Now pay attention to these instructions . [Second half of 1700s]
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“Tommy Pham knew — I’m sure he knew, because he’s extremely smart and pays attention to in some things that you wouldn’t expect a Major League Baseball player to pay attention to — I am guaranteeing you he was aware that he had a chance to get five hits.”

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In his sermons, he called for social inclusion and criticised governments that failed to pay attention to the poorest in society.

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“We are more likely to pay attention to something if we think it’s useful to us,” as Clayton told Salon in a phone interview.

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“I’ve been saying this now for the past two weeks: Pay attention to details. Because those are what’s killing us.”

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"And Bessent got him to pay attention."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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