worm's-eye view
- noun
- /wɜrmz aɪ vju/
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perspectiva de lombriz
- This study offers a "worm's-eye view" of the quality issues in e-book record sets, focusing on detailed evaluation of discrete elements in individual records.
Examples
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I assumed, instead, the worm's-eye view and tried to probe whatever came right in front of me—smelling it, touching it, seeing if I could do something to improve it.
Academic text (1997) -
I wish I had your worm's-eye view of history.
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A worm's-eye view is so often the true one.
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I thought it couldn't hurt to get a worm's-eye view of what the thinking is at headquarters.
Fiction book (1995) -
From a worm's-eye view, the towering buildings looked like giants looming overhead.
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The journalist took a worm's-eye view of the protest, capturing the emotions of the crowd from the ground.
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In her painting, she depicted a worm's-eye view of the garden, showcasing the flowers from a low perspective.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
worm's-eye + view
The phrase is directly compositional: it combines the possessive image 'worm's eye' (a viewpoint from a very low position) with 'view' (the scene seen). A B1 learner who knows 'worm', 'eye', and 'view' can readily infer a low/inferior vantage point; the possessive+N pattern (like 'bird's-eye view') is a common and transparent formation.
Etymology
The noun worm's-eye view comes from imagining a worm looking up with its eye from the ground, so buildings and people seem huge. That's why the phrase means seeing things from a 'low' or 'less powerful' position.