front and center

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front and center

(idiomatic) A command to come to the center of attention of an assemblage, as of military personnel or students.

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front and center (not comparable)

(idiomatic) At the center of attention.
- 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:
  All these familiar flavors are again front and center in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the feature that returns Aardman to theatrical stop-motion after the CGI of Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.
- 2016 August 21, Paul McClean, “Supermarkets and suppliers take stock of relationships”, in Financial Times‎^[2]:
  But despite improvements, Mr Baruch says some complaints persist. “Pay to stay [cash to secure shelf space] is front and centre of the complaints we receive — it’s supply chain bullying and anti-competitive. They shouldn’t try to create barriers to business — it’s fundamentally unfair, particularly at a time when small business confidence is at an all-time low.”
- 2018 September 2, Richard Parkin, “Morning mail: Greens put climate change front and centre”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:
  The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, is putting climate change front and centre in a speech committing his party to cooperating with Labor and turfing out a government that “don’t deserve to govern”.
- 2020 November 10, Cecilia Kang, David McCabe, Jack Nicas, “Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:
  Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center [title]
- 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time‎^[5]:
  Swift is many things onstage—vulnerable and triumphant, playful and sad—but the intimacy of her songcraft is front and center.

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