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eyes

eyes

14 2.9
How people judge someone or something
  • noun
  • /aɪz/
translation icon : a los ojos de
  • No, because in my eyes he'd done wrong.
  • EYES ON THE PRIZE

Examples

  • YOU'VE STILL GOT THAT SAME LOOK IN YOUR EYES.

    The Sea of Grass (1947)

  • I MEAN, IT WAS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF OUR EYES.

    The Desperate (2020)

  • You need to see what's going on with your OWN EYES and listen with your OWN EARS to get the stories the media won't ever tell you.

    Blog text (3)

  • HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP OUR EYES TURNED FROM THE TRUTH?

    Teenage Cave Man (1958)

  • I SAW BOTH MRS. PEELS... WITH MY OWN EYES.

    The Avengers (1998)

  • OVER A BILLION PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL HAVE THEIR EYES ON US TONIGHT AS THE BALL DROPS, SO I'D SAY THAT QUALIFIES AS A VERY BIG NIGHT.

    New Year's Eve (2011)

  • YOU'RE THE WILDEST THING I'VE LAID EYES ON SINCE I GAVE UP MARLON BRANDO.

    The 4 Points (2025)

  • THE BRIGHT, EXUBERANT EYES THAT I HAD FALLEN IN LOVE WITH WERE NOW BEGINNING TO GROW DULL AND LISTLESS WITH THE LONG FATIGUE OF A WEARY LIFE.

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)

  • In her eyes, honesty is the most important quality in a friend.

  • The project was impressive in the eyes of the committee members.

Synonyms

sight
vseyes
174 4.1

The way someone thinks about or judges something

is used to refer specifically to a person's or group's opinion or judgment
in the eyes of
vseyes
65 3.5

What someone or a group thinks about something

is used to refer broadly to a person's or group's opinion or judgment
in someone's eyes
vseyes
32 2.6

Someone thinks something is true

is a general reference to a person's or group's opinion rather than casual phrasing

Idioms

to keep one's eyes open
97 3.8

Watch carefully for danger or a chance

in the eyes of
65 3.5

What someone or a group thinks about something

in someone's eyes
32 2.6

Someone thinks something is true

to keep one's eyes peeled
  • Informal
16 4.6

Watch carefully for something important or dangerous

easy on the eyes
  • Informal
10 3.9

Pleasant or attractive to look at

sight for sore eyes
  • Informal
9 4.2

A welcome person or thing you are glad to see after time away, for example after a hard time

to pull the wool over someone's eyes
  • Informal
7 8.2

To trick someone by hiding the truth

to cry one's eyes out
  • Informal
7 4.2

Cry for a long time because you feel very sad

to believe my eyes
  • Informal
5 7.2

To be very surprised by what you see because it seems unreal

eyes wide open
  • Informal
3 4.3

To act while fully aware of possible risks

to open someone's eyes
  • Informal
3 3.7

Make someone understand something they did not know before

to bawl one's eyes out
  • Informal
3 7.6

Cry very loudly and for a long time

hard on the eyes
  • Informal
2 6.8

Unpleasant to look at and makes your eyes feel tired

to close one's eyes for the last time
1 8.5

To stop living

eyes bigger than one's stomach
  • Informal
1 6.9

To take more food than you can eat

with eyes open
1 5.4

Acting while fully aware of what could go wrong

to come up with snake eyes
  • Informal
9.9

To have very bad luck at an important time

angel in someone's eyes
  • Informal
6.4

A person you think is very good and kind

eyes in the back of one's head
  • Informal
8.1

To notice things happening behind you without turning around

to feast one's eyes
  • Informal
6.0

To look at something with great pleasure

to keep one's eyes skinned
  • UK
8.2

Watch carefully for danger or a chance to act

right under someone's very eyes
  • Informal
7.0

Happens openly without people nearby noticing

to roll one's eyes
  • Informal
3.7

To move your eyes away from someone to show you are annoyed or do not believe them

painful on the eyes
6.4

Unpleasant to look at because of bright, clashing colors

spark in someone's eyes
5.5

A bright look in someone's eyes showing excitement and strong interest

to undress with one's eyes
  • NSFW
9.7

To look at someone in a way that shows sexual interest as if they have no clothes

with eyes closed
  • Informal
4.9

To do something easily without thinking because you trust or know it well

Compounds

eyes-only
  • Formal
6 9.3

A document that only the person who receives it may read

snake eyes
  • Informal
2 7.5

A roll of two ones with two dice that people see as very unlucky

fresh pair of eyes
1 4.5

A person who looks at work with a new view to find mistakes

doll's eyes
  • Specialized
9.9

A forest plant with small round white berries that look like eyes and are poisonous

angel eyes
  • Informal
3.9

Eyes that look very beautiful and kind

angel eyes
  • Jargon
6.1

Rings of light around car headlights used to make them look stylish

baby blue-eyes
  • US
8.7

A small plant with soft blue flowers with dark spots that grows in California

ground ball with eyes
  • Jargon
9.1

A ball hit on the ground that moves unexpectedly and is hard to field

Surface Forms

eye singular
eyes plural

Morphology

eyes = eye (semi-transparent) = eye + s

Formed regularly from 'eye' + plural -s; the sense 'opinion' in phrases like 'in the eyes of' is a metaphorical extension (viewpoint) that is inferable but not strictly literal.

Etymology

Eyes comes from the old English word eye, which meant 'to see' and is the same idea as sight. So when we say 'in the eyes of', imagine someone looking and forming an opinion, and it simply means 'in the view' or 'in the opinion' of that person.