clap eyes on

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clap eyes on someone or something

to see someone or something, perhaps for the first time; to set eyes on someone or something. I wish she had never clapped eyes on her fiancé. I haven't clapped eyes on a red squirrel for years.

See also: clap, eye

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I'd like to clap eyes on him once, that's all, just once. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context Her cousin being, as it appears, in good work, and well to do, thanked me in a very manly sort of manner for this (conducting himself altogether, I must say, in a way that gives me a high opinion of him), and went and took as comfortable a little house as you or I could wish to clap eyes on. David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context "Your pardon, fair sir," said he, "but I know you the moment I clap eyes on you, though in sooth I have seen you oftener in steel than in velvet. The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context			Circumstances alter cases circus cite cite for city city slicker civil Civility costs nothing claim claim a life claim for claim to fame clam clam up clamber clamber onto clamber up clamor clamor against clamor for clamp clamp down clamp down on clamp on clap clap eyes on clap in some place clap on clap out clap together clapped-out clash clash against clash with clasp to class class with clatter around claw claw off claw way claw way to the top claw your way back from clay clean clean act up clean as a hound's tooth clean down clean off clean out clean out of			Clans are for Nerds CLANSA Clanship Clanship Clanship clanships clanships clanships CLANSIG clansman clansman Clansman Radio Control Harness clansmen clansmen clanswoman clanswoman clanswomen clanswomen CLANZ CLAO Claoxylon australe clap clap clap clap clap clap Clap board Clap board Clap dish clap eyes on clap in gaol clap in gaol clap in irons clap in irons clap in jail clap in jail clap in some place Clap net Clap of thunder Clap of thunder Clap of thunder clap on clap on clap on clap out Clap Out Loud clap skate Clap skates clap to clap together clap together clap together clap up Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap-board Clap-board clap-net CLAPA CLAPAI Claparede, Edouard

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