- worm's-eye
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adjective
Date: 1908
seen from ground level or from the lowest levels of a hierarchy <the bird's-eye view of the executive and the worm's-eye view of the employee — Current Biography>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
worm's-eye
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