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stars in eyes

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*stars in one's eyes
Fig. an obsession with celebrities, movies, and the theater. (Alludes to movie stars. *Typically: get ~; have ~; give one ~.) Many young people have stars in their eyes at this age. Anne has stars in her eyes. she wants to go to Hollywood.
See also: eye, star

stars in your eyes
someone who has stars in their eyes is very excited and hopeful about the future and imagines they are going to be very successful and famous She was a girl with stars in her eyes and dreams of becoming famous.
See reach for the moon
See also: eye, star


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Sama Said al Hudaifi, a standard nine student of Al Yaqeen School, had stars in eyes, literally, when she spoke of her ambition to study space science and become an astronaut.
 
 
 
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