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Idiom

all eyes

Meaning

Watching alertly or attentively.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“All eyes are on the stage as the show begins.”

“When the CEO walked into the room to announce the layoffs, all eyes were on her.”

“As the final seconds of the championship game ticked away, all eyes were fixed upon the player holding the ball.”

Examples

simple

“All eyes are on the stage as the show begins.”

contextual

“When the CEO walked into the room to announce the layoffs, all eyes were on her.”

complex

“As the final seconds of the championship game ticked away, all eyes were fixed upon the player holding the ball.”

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