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

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

I think the fewer books we take the better; they take up room,—and the wise way always seemed to me to read at home, and open one’s eyes and see abroad.

From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Whiting, Lilian

I don't agree with a lot of it myself—we Airedales have always been conservatively inclined; but I am bound to say that three years in the Army open one's eyes to a lot of things.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 by Various

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