the eye

Meaning

The eye is the organ of sight that lets people see. Figuratively, it can mean attention or judgment, or the calm center of a storm. It appears in phrases like catch the eye and the eye of the storm.

Synonyms

seemingly ostensibly externally ostensible superficially outwardly professedly at first sight officially supposedly

Examples

The husband and wife should be similar to the hand and the eye. When the hand hurts, the eyes should be crying. And when the eyes cry, the hand should wipe away the tears. John Chrysostom

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Helen Keller

The imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert

The eye of the leopard is on the goat, and the eye of the goat is on the leaf. Ethiopian Proverb

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. English Proverb

The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself. Bulgarian Proverb

Words in the phrase

the eye

Close letter words and terms

the exception proves the rule the exclusion of the extent of the eyes are the windows to the soul the fabulous fifties the fact is