"lay eyes on" meaning in English

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "laying eyes on",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid eyes on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid eyes on",
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      ]
    }
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        "1": "lay<,,laid> eyes on"
      },
      "expansion": "lay eyes on (third-person singular simple present lays eyes on, present participle laying eyes on, simple past and past participle laid eyes on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Teena Marie (lyrics and music), “Young Love”, in Irons in the Fire:",
          "text": "I remember back in school / When I first laid my eyes on you / I saw your smile and knew right then and there",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 144:",
          "text": "Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 5, Samantha Masters, quoting Edie Brickell, “Paul Simon tour 2018: Who is the Simon & Garfunkel star’s wife?”, in Express.co.uk:",
          "text": "We can show the kids the tape and say, ‘Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To see; look at; glimpse."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "see",
          "see"
        ],
        [
          "look at",
          "look at"
        ],
        [
          "glimpse",
          "glimpse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To see; look at; glimpse."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lay one's eyes on"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "lay eyes on"
}

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      "form": "lays eyes on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laying eyes on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid eyes on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid eyes on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Teena Marie (lyrics and music), “Young Love”, in Irons in the Fire:",
          "text": "I remember back in school / When I first laid my eyes on you / I saw your smile and knew right then and there",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 144:",
          "text": "Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 5, Samantha Masters, quoting Edie Brickell, “Paul Simon tour 2018: Who is the Simon & Garfunkel star’s wife?”, in Express.co.uk:",
          "text": "We can show the kids the tape and say, ‘Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To see; look at; glimpse."
      ],
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        [
          "see",
          "see"
        ],
        [
          "look at",
          "look at"
        ],
        [
          "glimpse",
          "glimpse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To see; look at; glimpse."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lay one's eyes on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lay eyes on"
}