make sit up and take notice

make somebody sit up and take notice

to make someone suddenly notice something and become interested in it (often + of ) That was the record that made me sit up and take notice of Neil Hannon.

See also: and, make, notice, sit, take, up

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Petre	PE-tre (Romanian)	Romanian, Macedonian, Georgian
Gormlaith	-	Irish, Scottish
Anand	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali
Antoinette	[.æntwa:'net]
Stanley	['stænli]
Ptolemaios	-	Ancient Greek