feast one's eyes on

Idioms  

1. Be delighted or gratified by the sight of, as in I'm feasting my eyes on this new sculpture—it's wonderful. This metaphoric expression may have been originated by Shakespeare, who used it in Sonnet 47: “With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.”

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Example Sentences

I did not want to read; it was enough to feast one's eyes on their backs, to take down a volume and handle it my old green-jacketed Browning, for instance.

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She was a sight to feast one's eyes on, and until the last moment was under a cloud of sail while her funnel belched black smoke.

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Not only did it occasion great feasting among the rich, which meant additional alms among the poor, but besides a chance to feast one's stomach, it meant an opportunity to feast one's eyes on beautiful garments and wonderful weapons; and in addition to all else, it meant such a budget of news and gossip and thrilling yarns as should supply local conversation with a year's stock of topics,—a stock always run low and rather shopworn towards the end of the long winters.

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