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
Felicidade-Portuguese
MoMOEnglish
Elpis-Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
ŽEljka-Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Eliana (2)-Hebrew
Emma['emə]