cut a wide swath

Make big impact

To cut a wide swath is to make a broad impact or attract considerable attention, often with a sense of dominance or indiscriminate effect.

The image comes from mowing—a wide swath clears more ground in one pass.

Someone who cuts a wide swath through the competition defeats many opponents decisively.

A scandal that cuts a wide swath affects numerous people or institutions.

attention

showy

Excessively eye-catching

impact

Control through superior strength

Opposites

impact and influence

Evade attention deliberately

visibility and prominence

Remain unnoticed deliberately

visibility and presence

cut a wide swathblend in

Become part of surroundings

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