Sentences with phrase «deer caught in the headlights»

The idiom "deer caught in the headlights" refers to a person who is frozen or paralyzed with fear, uncertainty, or shock. Full definition
I've seen job candidates look like deer caught in the headlights after I asked them about something that's written on their own resume.
Too often, they are deer caught in the headlights of this changing industry.
Partly, it's because the patients are unable to act, like deer caught in headlights.
If they look at you like a deer caught in the headlights, it may be best to keep moving.
Individual thinking should be encouraged, but this can also be like a deer caught in the headlights too.
The traffic was completely one way as Atletico Madrid looked like a deer caught in headlights in front of their opponents incessant offensive forays.
Watching the TV pictures of the players in the tunnel before the game and they looked petrified, like a deer caught in headlights, and when the game started it looked no different.
I was like a deer caught in the headlights.
No wonder the mayor looked like a deer caught in the headlights at his press conference.
Me, I look like a deer caught in the headlights when I am photographed!
Also finding the cover disappointing was zoom: «Deer caught in the headlights.
But recreated on film, his stasis makes little sense; he comes off as the worst sort of amateur, a deer caught in the headlights put through manufactured fictional paces that he, perversely enough, lived for real.
Like Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (another Payne peepshow into disappointed and disappointing middle Americans), Dern plays a deer caught in the headlights of his own insignificance.
The thought of these people getting rejection letter after rejection letter left me stunned like a deer caught in the headlight.
Most of them come to us shy, scared and have that «deer caught in the headlight» look.
Regina is one tough chick (a poster girl for the fictitious «EuroAsia» of videogame and anime lore), but doesn't have the «deer caught in the headlight» charm of Claire Redfield or Jill Valentine.
I've seen partners with 25 to 30 years of service who are told they have to leave and they're like deer caught in the headlights
The video interviews were the brainchild of the folks at the Legal Talk Network, who did all the filming and production and also did their best to keep me from looking like a deer caught in the headlights.
As I explained the details of joint insurance, my brother was like a deer caught in the headlights.
These other Mortgage Brokers, LOs and Lenders are CLUELESS about realtor rebates and are going to be like deer caught in the headlights!
Most of his important bits and pieces were covered by the fan thank goodness, but as we all stood there in shock for a few seconds, he looked like a deer caught in the headlights.
I suggest the BoC is like a deer caught in the headlights: uncertain of which way to jump, frozen by fear.
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