get an eyeball on (someone or something)

get an eyeball on (someone or something)

To see or spot someone or something. The police are trying to find out if anyone got an eyeball on the suspect fleeing the scene.
See also: eyeball, get, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

get an eyeball on someone/something

tv. to manage to spot someone or something; to catch sight of someone or something. When I finally got an eyeball on the speeding car, it was too far away for me to read the license plate.
See also: eyeball, get, on, someone, something
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • get an eyeball on someone/something
  • eyeball to eyeball
  • eyeball-to-eyeball
  • eyeballs out
  • drugged up to the eyeballs
  • in hot pursuit
  • in hot pursuit (of someone or something)
  • give (one) the hairy eyeball
  • give somebody the hairy eyeball
  • give someone the hairy eyeball