there is more to than meets the eye

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   a person or thing is more complicated or interesting than you might think at first

   like us, there's more to them than meets the eye.

In the movies · 1

• like us, there's more to them than meets the eye.Transformers2007
• There's more to him than meets the eye.Gone Girl2014
• "There's a lot more than meets the eye with you." Stupid.Transformers2007
• More to life than meets the eye, Landor, I admit.The Pale Blue Eye2022
• I think there's more to this hobbit than meets the eye.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001
• There's more here than meets the eye.Help!1965

From the same entry

• meet eye
• meet halfway
• meet your Maker
• make ends meet
• find your match
• where the rubber meets the road
• never the twain shall meet
• meet up
• meet with
• meet with
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More idioms

• throw under the bus
• what makes tick
• in private
• a world of difference
• at the back of your mind
• be asking for trouble
• every bit as good
• only have yourself to blame
• let's hear it for
• on display
• say the word
• mean to say