Idiom
set eyes on
Meaning
To see; to observe.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I loved that house the moment I set eyes on it.”
“She had never set eyes on such a beautiful landscape until she traveled to the mountains last summer.”
“From the moment he first set eyes on the ancient manuscript, he knew that his life’s work would be to translate its hidden secrets.”
Examples
simple
“I loved that house the moment I set eyes on it.”
contextual
“She had never set eyes on such a beautiful landscape until she traveled to the mountains last summer.”
complex
“From the moment he first set eyes on the ancient manuscript, he knew that his life’s work would be to translate its hidden secrets.”
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