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be sticking out like a sore thumb
vs
stare someone in the face
be sticking out like a sore thumb
stare someone in the face
verb
To be extremely visible and obvious to someone.
How often have the words
be sticking out like a sore thumb
and
stare someone in the face
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)