open your eyes

Meaning

1. Oxford55% of films

   to realize or make sb realize the truth about sth

2. Editorial45% of films

   to raise your eyelids so you can see, including telling someone whose eyes are shut, asleep, or unconscious to look or wake

In the movies · 46

• All right, listen up. We need to open our eyes.American History X1998
• - Did he deafen you? - He opened my eyes.Amazing Grace2006
• Well, I hope that this has opened your eyes to see where your vanity has taken you.Anne of Green Gables1985
• Open your eyes Open your eyes Open your eyesEncanto2021
• Open your eyes. Open your eyes.Knock at the Cabin2023
• Open your eyes.The Master2012
• Open your eyes!The Batman2022
• Open your eyes.Vanilla Sky2001

Learn it in full scenes

• American History X1998
  • Sweeney Makes Danny a Deal
  • Derek Vinyard's TV Interview
  • The Basketball Court Bet
• Amazing Grace2006
  • Wilberforce Meets Barbara in Bath
  • Wilberforce Tells Richard He Found God
  • Pitt Asks Wilberforce to Return
• Encanto2021
  • Abuela Tells Mirabel the Miracle Story
  • Mirabel Introduces the Madrigals
  • Mirabel Told to Step Aside

From the same entry

• be an open secret
• have an open mind
• keep your ears open
• an open book
• an open invitation
• with open arms
• burst open
• the door to
• keep an eye open
• with your eyes open
• on the open market
• keep your options open

More idioms

• bite off more than you can chew
• head over heels in love
• light at the end of the tunnel
• stab in the back
• on account of
• get nowhere
• be in the bag
• take by surprise
• be on the move
• at random
• if only
• in the nick of time