open someone's eyes

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)To make someone aware of something they did not know or fully understand before; toenlightensomeone.Visiting Africaopened my eyesto what it is like living without clean water.2023July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, inRAIL, number988, page61:I have to admit that Merseyside was the one area of the railway I had little experience of until this year, but two visits[…]haveopened my eyesto what is an incredibly well-run network, with such friendly staff and locals.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary