have an eye for

1. Be discriminating or perceptive about something, as in She has an eye for decorating . [c. 1700]

2. have eyes for . Also, have eyes only for . Be attracted to or desire someone or something (exclusively). For example, It's obvious she has eyes for him , or He has eyes only for the top award . [Early 1800s]

Example Sentences

The Philippous have an eye for wonderful, miserable detail, like a coroner’s stretcher that gets stuck on a doorway as it goes rattling out of the house.

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You have an eye for these kinds of projects, though, you were in “She Said.”

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Still, Snead and his scouting staff have an eye for players with histories of not fearing change.

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“But Lego has increasingly become instruction-based, and you can make some incredible things. What I enjoy doing and seem, for some reason, to have an eye for, is recreating in Lego what people see in the street.”

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AP photographers will always capture the most important moments at the world’s biggest sporting events, but they also have an eye for the drama in little moments that might otherwise slip by unnoticed in the noise.

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