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English Idiom: Bird’s-eye view
Sometimes, it helps to understand how something looks if you get a bird’s-eye view of it.
Before we viewed our property, my wife and I made sure to get a bird’ s-eye view of it on Google Earth.
It was a way to understand where the roads and neighbours are about the property.
You see, a bird’s-eye view of something, in its literal sense, is a view of something from the top or from above.
However, a view from the top or above is the literal explanation and does not explain the idiomatic version.
When used as an idiom, a bird’s-eye view means to get a brief review of something.
For example, I can give you a bird’ s-eye view of Canada by explaining that it is about 26 times bigger than Japan, the capital is Ottawa (not Toronto), it’s super cold in winter, and it’s full of amicable, French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 64.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.