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Meaning of stand/stick out like a sore thumb in English

stand/stick out like a sore thumb

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If 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.
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(Definition of stand/stick out like a sore thumb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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in Chinese (Traditional)
與周圍格格不入，顯得刺眼…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
与周围格格不入，显得刺眼…
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