in the public eye

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   of great interest to the public

   “a person in the public eye”

   Similarpublic

Questions about in the public eye

What does in the public eye mean?

in the public eye means "of great interest to the public".

Is in the public eye a common word?

in the public eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.