see and be seen
idiom
: to see and be noticed by important or fashionable people
We go to the club to see and be seen.
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Provide work cafes where people can see and be seen, provide neighborhoods where teammates can be in proximity to each other and provide enclaves for private conversations between colleagues.
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Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Nowhere is this more on display than in Beverly Hills, and what better way to see and be seen there than in an exotic automobile.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 24 July 2025
In the 1960s, the stretch of coastline just south of Athens—beginning at the port of Piraeus and sprawling some 40 miles along the western shore of the Attica Peninsula—was the place to see and be seen.
—Hester Underhill, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
Angry Alan capitalizes on his followers’ bottomless need to see and be seen by him.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
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Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Nowhere is this more on display than in Beverly Hills, and what better way to see and be seen there than in an exotic automobile.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 24 July 2025
In the 1960s, the stretch of coastline just south of Athens—beginning at the port of Piraeus and sprawling some 40 miles along the western shore of the Attica Peninsula—was the place to see and be seen.
—Hester Underhill, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
Angry Alan capitalizes on his followers’ bottomless need to see and be seen by him.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
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“See and be seen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/see%20and%20be%20seen. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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