all eyes

Idioms

Watching very closely, as in The buyers at the fashion show were all eyes. Worded slightly differently (with all one's eyes), this idiom dates from the mid-1500s. Also see its counterpart, all ears.

Example Sentences

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All eyes are on gold and the dollar.

From Barron's

Immediately, all eyes focused in.

From Literature

That done, he clapped his hands for quiet, and the nervous murmuring stopped instantly as all eyes turned to him.

From Literature

"All eyes are on Texas," said Dan Scandling, of public affairs consultancy APCO, who spent a quarter century on Capitol Hill as chief of staff and communications director for Republican lawmakers.

From Barron's

“Blue Owl is one of the bigger players and that’s why all eyes are on them.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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