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
Tasnim-Arabic
BrendanBREN-dən (English)Irish, English
Vince[vins]
GrÉGoiregre-GWAWRFrench
Hewitt['hju:it]
Geiger['gaigə]