Idiom
clap eyes on
Meaning
To see; to lay eyes on.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I knew I loved this house the moment I clapped eyes on it.”
“He had heard so much about the famous painting, but he finally clapped eyes on it at the gallery yesterday.”
“After years of dreaming about the distant mountain range, she felt a profound sense of peace the moment she clapped eyes on the snow-capped peaks.”
Examples
simple
“I knew I loved this house the moment I clapped eyes on it.”
contextual
“He had heard so much about the famous painting, but he finally clapped eyes on it at the gallery yesterday.”
complex
“After years of dreaming about the distant mountain range, she felt a profound sense of peace the moment she clapped eyes on the snow-capped peaks.”
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