clear-eye
Americannoun
plural
clear-eyesEtymology
Origin of clear-eye
First recorded in 1575–85; alteration by folk etymology of clary
Example Sentences
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“I watch it because how he sets his runs up, how he develops things in his mind, and I kind of see it from a clear-eye view,” Cook said.
From Washington Times
“But with sitting out a year, I learned so much about myself as a man. Like I said, everything I do is with a clear-eye view. It’s a focused vision, a determined belief and earned dream. So it’s something that I live by and I walk with every single day.”
From Washington Times
Clary, or clear-eye, or Christ's-eye, which latter name makes the same writer indignantly say, "I could wish from my soul that blasphemy and ignorance were ceased among physicians"—as if the poor doctors gave these folk-names!
From Project Gutenberg
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