get one's eye in
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To become accustomed to the playing conditions, and thus bring one's hand-eye coordination to a reasonable level.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
gets one's eye in (present, singular)
getting one's eye in (participle, present)
got one's eye in (participle, past)
got one's eye in (past)