First recorded in 1925–30; from Seeing Eye, a trademark of The Seeing Eye, Inc.
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
One of the lost animals featured on Angelo’s boxes was Ondrea, a puppy training to be a Seeing Eye dog.
From Fox News • Jul. 18, 2019
Even in the background, walking past, you didn’t see anyone signing or with a Seeing Eye dog or a wheelchair.
From Slate • Oct. 23, 2018
A few years ago, Dominguez was driving a northbound A train into the 125th Street station when he saw a blind man and his Seeing Eye dog sprawled on the tracks.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018
But Mr. Bannon has served as a kind of Seeing Eye dog for the president.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2017
I could go blind, and then I’d have to work on my Lego airport purely by sense of touch and go to school with a Seeing Eye dog.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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.
