open your eyes
Wake up, look
Open your eyes is a command to notice what should be obvious.
Literally, it means to stop having your eyes closed.
Figuratively, it urges someone to see reality they're ignoring or denying: Open your eyes—he's been lying to you this whole time.
The phrase implies willful blindness rather than mere ignorance.
- wakePath left in water
- wake upBecome conscious again
- awakeNot in slumber
- wide awakeTotally alert and attentive
- seePerceive with eyes
look · look around · gaze · vision · awareness · realize · truth · blind · sight · dawn · morning · light · see the light · clarity · consciousness · perceive · notice · pay attention
- snap out of itsnap out of it, get a grip, get it together, shake it off, wake up
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
awareness and perception
open your eyesturn a blind eye
Deliberately ignore something obvious
look the other way · close your eyes · tune it out · keep dreaming
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