bird's-eye view
/ˌbɜːrdz aɪ ˈvjuː/
looking straight down from above
bird's-eye view in a sentence
“A bird's-eye view flattens the market into a mosaic of umbrellas.”
Origin of bird's-eye view
17th-century coinage: the vantage of a flying bird
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