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
Amelia[ə'mi:ljə]
Black[blæk]
HelmiHEL-mee (Finnish)Finnish, Swedish
Dione[dai'əuni]
Silvestroseel-VE-stroItalian
KonrÁD-Hungarian, Czech, Slovak