sight for sore eyes

The son of a nymph and a river-god, Narcissus was a sight for sore eyes.

Still, the extraction of an eyeball on “The Peripheral” complete with close-up on the optic nerve, gave us quite literally a sight for sore eyes.

Dasch was a real talker, enjoying the sound of his voice and peppering his conversations with American slang and idioms, such as "scram" and "sight for sore eyes."

He was badly disheveled and a sight for sore eyes and in need of help.

“As it turned out, the television ignored Kathleen and missed a classic Irish truth, a sight for sore eyes. She climbed back on the bike and headed off in a blur, oblivious of a piece of nearby graffiti that seemed all about life’s withering dangers: ‘I wonder each night what the monster will do to me tomorrow.’”