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set eyes on

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.04 sec.
set eyes on someone or something and lay eyes on someone or something
Fig. to see someone or something for the first time. I knew when I set eyes on that car that it was the car for me. Have you ever laid eyes on such a beautiful flower?
See also: eye, set


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Yet how one could have set eyes on so singular a face and yet have forgotten the precise occasion, passed my imagination.
Huxtable's statement is -- he and the young lady have never set eyes on each other.
I should have thought he could not bear to set eyes on him.
 
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