lay eyes on

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lay eyes on (third-person singular simple present lays eyes on, present participle laying eyes on, simple past and past participle laid eyes on)

  1. (idiomatic) To see; look at; glimpse.
    • 1980, Teena Marie (lyrics and music), “Young Love”, in Irons in the Fire:
      I remember back in school / When I first laid my eyes on you / I saw your smile and knew right then and there
    • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
      Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
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