ins Auge gehen
German
Etymology
Literally: “to go into the eye”, “to hit the eye”.
Verb
- (literally, of a sharp object) to hurt or gouge someone’s eye
- Passt mit den Scheren auf, dass da nichts ins Auge geht.
- Be careful with the scissors, so nobody hurts their eyes.
- (idiomatic, informal) to fail; to go wrong; to turn nasty; to blow up in one's face
- Die provokante Werbekampagne ist ordentlich ins Auge gegangen.
- That procative advertising campaign was a big fail.
Conjugation
- See gehen.
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