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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."
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Esma | | - | Turkish, Bosnian |
| Ivah | | - | Biblical |
| Nanaya | | - | Near Eastern Mythology |
| Pip | | PIP | English |
| Borislava | | bah-ree-SLAH-vah (Russian) | Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian |
| Nero (1) | | NEER-o (English) | Ancient Roman |