brights

brights

A vehicle's headlights set to their brightest setting; high beams. Geez, it's dark out here—put your brights on so we can see where we're going.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

brights

n. the eyes. (From bright eyes.) Don’t you close your brights and look bored when I’m talking to you!
See also: bright
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • guzzery
  • Hughie
  • ralph
  • ruth
  • earl
  • dinky
  • bring-down
  • beetle
  • Big Dig
  • beetlebrain
References in periodicals archive
"Vivid or bright colours can be used on either the upper or lower eye areas and are best applied in minimal quantities," suggests make-up artist Rae Morris.
All things bright and beautiful; Be bold and accentuate your summer tan. Lisa Haynes reveals how to experiment with vivid hues
Brights Cleaning, Thorton-Cleverleys, Lancashire's most prestigious floor care and floor cleaning specialists are extremely well-established, setting themselves above their local competition by specializing in carpet restoration and care by using the state of the art machinery and trade recognized eco-friendly products and treatments.
Lancashire Carpet Cleaner Announces 2014 is Set to be a Record Breaking Year
A model at Cacharel, spring/ summer at Paris Fashion Week Model Desiree Rambakupetwa shot for WM magazine's spring brights photo shoot, wearing cosmetics by Nars at John Lewis.
Rainbow brights; Acid shades dominated the catwalks for spring summer. And going crazy for colour with your beauty palette is the easiest way to do the brights trend this season. Here's the beauty kit you need ..
With so many hot shades to choose from, the future for make-up is oh-so bright.
Time to trip the bright fantastic
Maybe, partly because of the disparaging articles, no one thought it was worth writing to FI in favor of the proposal--maybe because they spent the time participating on the brights.net instead.
More 'Bright' ideas
In Brights writings, one finds a remarkably accurate clinical description of acute glomerulonephritis: "A child, or an adult, is affected with scarlatina ...
Richard Bright--Physician Extraordinaire
Said Renee Hergix, divisional merchandise manager for Herberger's Department Store: "Brights are really big.
Textile color fest; buyers fill up on brights at market
Spring is going to be so bright, brighter than it's been for many seasons, and if not in full blocks of colour verging on acid, then also neon, and that's something that hasn't really been done to great effect since the '80s.
Springing into serious colour
The name began (and still functions) as a device to unite a growing number of people into an Internet constituency of individuals (the Brights) who seek greater social and civic acceptance for persons free of supernatural beliefs.
A rose is a rose
The most serious and common accusation is that, by using Bright, we are claiming that we are intelligent and that religionists are "Dims" or "Dulls." Brights must not foster or perpetuate this conceptual hangover from the adjectival form of "bright." ...
The founders respond
The time has come for us brights to come out of the closet.
The bright stuff
NEW fight-club Bright Star Academy attracted a crowd of more than 300 to its first show at Albrighton Sports and Social Club.
Bright future for Joe's new outfit; BOXING
The committee learned that the assets of Bright Start and Bright Directions -- which differ only in the investment options offered -- reached $10.4 billion in December.
Bright picture of college savings programs painted for Senate committee Assets and accounts on the rise for Bright Start, Bright Directions
Q I keep seeing fashion articles praising bright colours like orange and yellow.
Ask Emma: Scared of colour