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
Dazbog-Slavic Mythology
Rien (1)REENDutch
Padrig-Welsh, Breton
Neo (1)-Southern African, Tswana
Bartolomeu-Portuguese, Galician
Jasmin (1)YAHS-meen (German), JAZ-min (English)German, English