set eyes on

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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. The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context Huxtable's statement is -- he and the young lady have never set eyes on each other. No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context I should have thought he could not bear to set eyes on him. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context			serve under serve up serve with service session set Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil set a precedent Set a thief to catch a thief set a trap set about set about doing set above set against set alarm bells ringing set apart set apart from set aside set at set back set back from set before set beside set down set down as set eyes on set face against set fire to set foot in set for set for life set forth set forth on set forward set free set great store by set heart against set heart on set hopes on set house in order set in set in a place set in a type face set in concrete set in motion set in stone set in train set in ways set into set mind at ease set mind on			Set complement set composite Set comprehension set condition set conflagration Set construction Set Control Module set copper Set Course Time Set Covering Location Problem Set Decipherable Set Decision Diagram set decoration Set Decorators Society of America Set Delay Point set description Set direct product Set Direction Flag set down set down set down set down set down set down as set down in black and white set down to set down to Set Equation Transformation System Set Equipment Contact Maintenance Unit set eyes on set face against set face against set face against set face against set face against Set Financial Database Language set fire to set fire to set fire to set fire to set fire to Set Fire to Flames set firmly set foot set foot set foot set foot set foot in set foot in set foot in set foot in set foot in set foot on set foot on set foot on set foot on set for set for a later time Set for Life Set form

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