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(right) on cue

At exactly the most (or least) opportune moment, as if on purpose. We had just been talking about the awful new company initiative when, on cue, the CEO walked into the room. I was complaining to my wife that none of my friends had asked how our recent move when, when one of them sent me a text message about it right on cue.
See also: cue, on

cue in

1. To signal one to begin to do something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cue" and "in." And then I'll cue in the sopranos for the harmony. Once the director cued me in, I stepped on stage.
2. To give one information that they have missed. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cue" and "in." Don't worry, I was here from the beginning so I'll cue you in on what we talked about.
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cue up

1. To prepare something for viewing or listening. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "cue" and "up." You cue up the video, I'll get the popcorn.
2. To assemble into a line, as of people who are waiting for something. A variant spelling of "queue up." I can't believe people are cued up already—the store doesn't open for another 12 hours!
See also: cue, up

jump the queue

To go ahead of someone or multiple people who have been waiting before one. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. I wanted to shout at the man for jumping the queue, but I was too embarrassed about making a scene. There has been public outrage after it came to light that some people had been jumping the queue for surgery appointments because they had a friend or relative working at the hospital.
See also: jump, queue

take a/(one's) cue from (someone or something)

To model one's actions based on the example or influence of someone or something else. The director definitely took a cue from his favorite film when framing that scene. Take a cue from your kids and learn how to enjoy the little things.
See also: cue, take

cue someone in

 
1. Lit. to give someone a cue; to indicate to someone that the time has come. Now, cue the orchestra director in. All right, cue in the announcer.
2. Fig. to tell someone what is going on. (Almost the same as clue someone in (on something).) I want to know what's going on. Cue me in. Cue in the general about the troop movement.
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take one's cue from someone

to use someone else's behavior or reactions as a guide to one's own. (From the theatrical cue as a signal to speak, etc.) If you don't know which spoons to use at the dinner, just take your cue from John. The other children took their cue from Tommy and ignored the new boy.
See also: cue, take

cue in

Give information or instructions, for example, She said she'd cue us in on their summer plans. This verbal use of the noun cue in the sense of "guiding suggestion" dates from the 1920s.
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take one's cue from

Follow the lead of another, as in I'm not sure what to bring, so I'll take my cue from you. This expression, first recorded in 1622, alludes to the cue giving an actor a signal to speak.
See also: cue, take

take your cue from someone

COMMON If you take your cue from someone, you behave in the same way as them. Taking his cue from his companion, he apologized for his earlier display of temper. Everybody working for you will take their cue from you.
See also: cue, someone, take

on cue

at the correct moment.
See also: cue, on

take your cue from

follow the example or advice of.
Cue in both of these idioms is used in the theatrical sense of ‘the word or words that signal when another actor should speak or perform a particular action’.
See also: cue, take

jump the queue

1 push into a queue of people in order to be served or dealt with before your turn. 2 take unfair precedence over others.
The US version of this expression is jump in line .
See also: jump, queue

(right) on ˈcue

just at the appropriate moment: The bell sounded for the beginning of the lesson, and, right on cue, the teacher walked in.
See also: cue, on

take your ˈcue from somebody

be influenced in your actions by what somebody else has done: In designing the car, we took our cue from other designers who aimed to combine low cost with low petrol consumption.
See also: cue, somebody, take

jump the ˈqueue

(British English) (American English jump the ˈline, cut in ˈline) go to the front of a line of people without waiting for your turn: I get very angry with people who jump the queue. ▶ ˈqueue-jumping (British English) (American English ˈline-jumping less frequent) noun: This practice encourages queue-jumping for medical services.
See also: jump, queue

cue in

v.
1. To give a signal to someone at a specified time, especially a signal to begin: The conductor cued in each section of the choir one by one. Cue me in when it's time to say my lines.
2. To give information or instructions to someone, such as a latecomer: I cued in my coworker about the items that we discussed at the beginning of the meeting. She cued me in to what happened in the first five minutes of the movie.
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cue up

v.
1. To position an audio or video recording in readiness for playing: The DJ cued up the next record on the turntable as the song came to an end. I wanted to show scenes from the film during my presentation, so I cued them up ahead of time.
2. To form or get into a waiting line; queue up: The customers cued up for tickets long before the box office was open.
See also: cue, up
References in periodicals archive ?
Thus, facilitation was observed (6.13% fewer errors for cued than uncued trials) when no fixation cue was presented, while IOR emerged (8.75% more errors for cued than uncued trials) in the group with fixation cue.
According to the authors, the role of the fixation cue "is consistent with its putative role in reorienting attention away from the cued location".
Inhibicion de retorno: ?desenganche atencional o coste en la deteccion? La teoria del coste en la deteccion
Again, this was due to the low AQ group showing greater cueing to coherent objects (tools; 19 ms cueing) than to scrambled tool parts (13 ms cueing), while the high AQ group showed the opposite pattern, being cued more to scrambled tool parts (19 ms cueing) than to tools (14 ms cueing, see Fig.
Low scorers again were cued to the coherent objects (tools) more than to the scrambled displays, though this difference was smaller than in Experiment 1.
Gaze and arrow cueing of attention reveals individual differences along the autism spectrum as a function of target context
By eliminating scanning between the "real world" in the forward field of view and the handheld display, the HMD allowed participants to demonstrate superior performance, as measured by the target detection latencies of accurately cued targets.
Not surprisingly, cued targets were detected faster than were uncued targets, with enhanced cuing benefits when participants used the HMD.
Head up versus head down: the costs of imprecision, unreliability, and visual clutter on cue effectiveness for display signaling
To examine this aspect we compared average detection times as a function of the cue parameters (for cued and uncued targets and for false alarms).
This measure can indicate whether observers first scan the cued targets and only then search for noncued targets or if they use any other strategy in their visual search.
New alternative methods of analyzing human behavior in cued target acquisition
In these studies, large and long-lasting facilitation effects are observed, but in addition, Spatial Stroop interference is systematically reduced on cued trials as compared to no cue or oppositely cued trials (Funes & Lupianez, 2003; Lupianez & Funes, 2005; Funes, Lupianez & Milliken, 2007; see Funes, Lupianez & Milliken, 2005, for a recent review of this literature).
According to these authors, participants may adopt a general set that modulates the extent to which two spatio-temporally contiguous events, such as the cue and target on cued trials at short SOAs, are encoded as part of the same event representation.
The modulation of exogenous Spatial Cueing on Spatial Stroop interference: evidence of a set for "cue-target event segregation"
That is, replicating effects of attentional tunneling that we have observed in three earlier experiments (Merlo et al., 1999; Yeh et al., 1999, Experiments 1 and 2), the unexpected target was less likely to be detected when it was presented with a cued object (soldier) than with an uncued one.
Display signaling in augmented reality: Effects of cue reliability and image realism on attention allocation and trust calibration
For the latter, detection was more likely when it was paired with the uncued soldier (72%) than with the cued tank (53%), F(1, 12) = 15.51, p = .002.
Target Cuing in Visual Search: The Effects of Conformality and Display Location on the Allocation of Visual Attention
A post-hoc analysis using the Newman-Keuls method showed that, for an ISI of 100 ms, when the target occurred at the cued position, MRT (402 ms) was longer than MRT (289 ms) when cue and target occurred at different positions.
Early and late inhibitions elicited by a peripheral visual cue on manual response to a visual target: are they based on Cartesian coordinates?
Facoetti and Molteni (2000) showed that performance is more affected when an incompatible flanker is present in the visual scene, and that the effect of the type of flanker depends on the size of the cued area and/or the position of the flanker in relation to the attended area.
Automatic focusing of attention on object size and shape
On the other hand, the decrease of IOR across practice might be due to an increase in the effectiveness of the cue (thus increasing facilitatory effects), or to the fact that practiced subjects tend to maintain attention at the cued location on some trials.
The effects of practice on cueing in detection and discrimination tasks. (Seccion Experimental)
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