seeing

(I'll) be seeing you.

Good-bye, I will see you sometime in the (near) future. Bob: Bye. Be seeing you. Sally: Yeah. See you later. John: Have a good time on your vacation. I'll be seeing you. Sally: See you next week. Bye.

Seeing is believing.

Prov. It is hard to believe something you have not seen. (Implies that you will not believe the thing under discussion until you have actually seen it.) Jill: They say Melissa has become a wonderful housekeeper now that she has her own apartment. Jane: Seeing is believing. I really didn't think that Jerry's girlfriend could be as pretty as he said she was, but seeing is believing.

See also: believe

seeing pink elephants and seeing pink spiders; Seeing snakes

intoxicated; recovering from a drinking bout; having the delirium tremens. When I got to the point of seeing pink elephants, I knew that something had to be done. The old one who's shaking—he's probably seeing snakes.

See also: elephant, pink

Seeing that...

considering...; since... Seeing that she has no money, Sally won't be going shopping. Seeing that it's raining, we won't go to the beach.

seeing things

imagining that one sees someone or something that is not there. Lisa says that she saw a ghost, but she was just seeing things. I thought I was seeing things when Bill walked into the room. Someone had told me he was dead.

See also: thing

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Seeing is believing.

something that you say which means you can only believe that something surprising or strange is true if you see it yourself I'd never have imagined my parents could dance, but seeing is believing.

See also: believe

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seeing that also seeing as (how)

considering that We should go to the concert, seeing that we've already paid for the tickets.