see stars
Perceive flashing lights, especially after a blow to one's head. For example, A swinging door hit me and I really saw stars. [Late 1800s]
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How to use see stars in a sentence
From Tiger Woods to Carrie Prejean, see stars that also got down digitally.
She fetched me a slap in the face that made me see stars, and my ears rung like a brass kettle for a quarter of an hour.
The Portland Sketch Book | VariousBut though it may not listen to your preaching, it will wear your boots, or buy your flour, or see stars through your telescope.
How to Succeed | Orison Swett MardenAnd on beyond them, far overhead, he could even see stars, blurred a trifle by the material through which he observed them.
The Great Airship. | F. S. BreretonGuilty or innocent, he makes them all see stars in the cause of public order.
The Inspector-General | Nicolay Gogol
It was no dream whack, I can tell you, but a real live double-fisted one, that made me see stars.
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor | Annie Fellows Johnston
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