Learn English – Can “It escaped (from) the eye” imply that we did not notice a typo in our writing

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How can we imply that we did not notice our typo on a writing like essay? Consider a friend of mine reads my writing and says "There is a spelling mistake on your essay.", so in this situation can I say

"Ahh, it escaped my eye. Thank you."

"Ahh, it escaped me. Thank you."

I think "I couldn't notice it" seems like that it can be used for someone else's works.

For example I think we can say:

"I couldn't notice there is a logical mistake on the story."

and I think we say say also, if there is a sentence like that,

"It escaped my eye there was a logical mistake on the story."

Am I right?

Best Answer

I would say

"Ahh, I missed it (when I checked my paper for mistakes). Thank you!"

In this context, missed has definition from Collins Dictionary:

  1. to fail to meet, reach, attain, catch, accomplish, see, hear, perceive, understand, etc.

Another phrase you could use is "overlooked it" where overlook means "fail to notice". For example,

The typo was easy to overlook because it wasn't highlighted by the automatic spell checker.

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