single out

single out idiom
Choose or distinguish from others, as in We singled him out from all the other applicants. This idiom was first recorded in 1629.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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