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see with half an eye



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Idioms and Phrases

Notice the obvious, tell at a glance, as in I could see with half an eye that he was sleeping through the entire concert . This hyperbolic expression, which presumably alludes to an eye that is only half-open, was first recorded in 1579.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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