open one's eyes
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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes, you know, it takes a big thing to open one’s eyes.
From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Tarrant, Percy
It blew a gale all the afternoon, and the dust was so bad one could hardly open one's eyes.
From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur
Travel and talk to foreigners open one's eyes to aggressive possibilities; history and its warnings become conceivable.
From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It is no breach of the law of love to open one's eyes to facts, and so to save oneself from taking paper money for gold, except at a heavy discount.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander
