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
Esma-Turkish, Bosnian
Ivah-Biblical
Nanaya-Near Eastern Mythology
PipPIPEnglish
Borislavabah-ree-SLAH-vah (Russian)Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian
Nero (1)NEER-o (English)Ancient Roman