stand/stick out like a sore thumb
informalIf someone or something stands/sticks out like a sore thumb, everyone notices them because they are very different from the people or things around them:
Everyone else was in jeans and T-shirts and I had my office clothes on - I stuck out like a sore thumb.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Visible
- (as) large as life idiom
- discernible
- full
- high-visibility
- large
- mile
- noticeable
- observe
- out
- perceptible
- prominent
- relief
- show
- sore
- stand out
- stand/stick out a mile idiom
- stick
- stick out
- visibility
- visible
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