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with one's eyes open

Idioms

Fully aware, as in We started this project with our eyes open and are not surprised at the results. [First half of 1900s] Also see keep one's eyes open.

Example Sentences

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This is truly being deceived with one's eyes open; to make dispositions before the eyes of men and not to keep them!

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

And that way is to learn to accept things as they come; to meet situations—no matter how appalling they may be, with one's eyes open.

From The Island of Faith by Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth)

And to do it with one's eyes open is the maddest folly of all.

From Only an Incident by Litchfield, Grace Denio

Sometimes one sleeps with one's eyes open, and thus it was with Kathlyn.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold

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