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bird's-eye view

  1. a view or perspective from above or at a distance
  2. an overall, but cursory, view

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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