feast one's eyes on



feast one's eyes on

Be delighted or gratified by the sight of, as in I'm feasting my eyes on this new sculpture-it's wonderful. This metaphoric expression may have been originated by Shakespeare, who used it in Sonnet 47: "With my love's picture then my eye doth feast."
See also: eye, feast, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Jenifer
SilvioSEEL-vyo (Italian), SEEL-byo (Spanish)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian
Dike-Greek Mythology
Nanna (2)-Near Eastern Mythology
Ulf-Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Poghos-Armenian