sit up and take notice in English

wake up, become alert; be amazed, be astounded

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1. I suppose it would make people sit up and take notice.

2. It may take a painting or a photograph to make us sit up and take notice.

3. Do you want people to sit-up and take notice of what you have to say?

4. Her attitudes and opinions on sex, nudity, style and sexuality forced the public to sit up and take notice."

5. For Hyman, the "one sit-up-and-take-notice moment" was the confrontation between Will and Quinn where he told her to grow up.

6. Bevans' made 75 cases of the Studio Seven Fifty Pinot, and it is a sit-up and take-notice wine: Billowingly aromatic, and full-bodied with waves of luscious, pure dark fruit.

7. “Analogue is a sit-up-and-take-notice achievement in storytelling, in interface, in research, in mechanics and in moral ambiguity.” – Alec Meer, Rock Paper Shotgun “It was like watching a horror movie, knowing what was about to happen and curious only how awful the director’s willing to get.