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• Seeing is believing
  Seeing is believing

  I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.
• seeing is believing
  seeing is believing

  Only physical or concrete evidence is convincing, as in She wrote us that she's lost twenty pounds, but seeing is believing. This idiom was first recorded in this form in 1639.

Seeing is believing

Cultural  

1. I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.

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seeing is believing Idioms  

1. Only physical or concrete evidence is convincing, as in She wrote us that she's lost twenty pounds, but seeing is believing. This idiom was first recorded in this form in 1639.

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Example Sentences

They say seeing is believing, and people believe that this is a rapidly growing trend because they see it on television so often.

From Slate • May 15, 2023

“One of the great things about good design and infrastructure is seeing is believing, and you see that progress from skeptics to converts,” Buttigieg said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

For them, seeing is believing so they think “if none of my guys have died from the virus, it’s not real.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2020

In Landeskog’s view, seeing is believing in MacKinnon’s skills.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2018

If seeing is believing, the reader may lend credence to my recital of every incident I have herein recounted.

From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.