pay attention

Idioms and Phrases

Heed, be attentive to, as in Now pay attention to these instructions . [Second half of 1700s]

Example Sentences

But, if anything, he didn’t do enough: to keep his landmark welfare expansion going, pay attention to all the everyday concerns that also mattered, address those worries, or counter the easy misunderstanding and misinformation that rose up in that void.

From Slate

“I never got a diploma and maybe I didn’t pay attention in some of the classes, but I definitely paid attention to Darlene Love, and I paid attention to Brian Wilson,” Paley said in 1990.

From Los Angeles Times

"I have very eclectic taste, so sometimes people say, 'You really like that?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, I really like that. And if you pay attention, you might like it too.'"

From Salon

And I'm like, "Yeah, I really like that. And if you pay attention, you might like it too."

From Salon

"We didn’t have credentials to get on the field. But I said 'no-one is going to pay attention'. This was pre-9/11, security was much more lax than it is now."

From BBC

Related Words

• attend
• check out
• examine
• follow
• listen
• look
• observe
• regard
• scan
• scrutinize
• see
• stare
• view
• wait