From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishleap out at somebody phrasal verbif a word or phrase in a piece of writing leaps out at you, you notice it particularly, because it is interesting, important etc SYN jump out at → leap→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
leap out at • The fine, romantic handwriting suddenly leaps out at me again from the surrounding porridge of the Quaker Oats archive.• Barons' example did not leap out at me at first.• The trees, illuminated, leaping out at one.• On page after page of his work sentences leap out at the eye to be noted and remembered. 