feast one's eyes on, to
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
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
feast (one's) eyes on
To be delighted or gratified by the sight of: We feasted our eyes on the paintings.
See also: eye, feast, on
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
feast one's eyes on, to
To enjoy the sight of something or someone. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 47, “With my love’s picture then my eye doth feast,” is one of the early sources of this metaphor. It may have been a cliché by the time George Meredith used it in The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871): “The princess . . . let her eyes feast incessantly on a laughing sea.”
See also: eye, feast
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- a bowl of cherries
- bowl of cherries
- delighted to have you
- delighted to have you here
- delighted to make your acquaintance
- hitch one's wagon to a star, to
- come on
- come upon
- sink one's teeth into, to
- meat and drink to me, it is