easy on the eyes
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easy on the eyes (comparative more easy on the eyes, superlative most easy on the eyes)
- (idiomatic) Physically attractive; beautiful.
- 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Coming of Gowf”, in The Clicking of Cuthbert:
- Truly was this maiden, as his Chamberlain had said, noticeably easy on the eyes. Her beauty was as water in the desert, as fire on a frosty night, as diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires, and amethysts.
- 1998 Jan. 23, Stephen Holden, "Ukrainian Patient: A Romance In the Rain" (film review of Swept from the Sea), New York Times (retrieved 2 Oct 2013):
- Those lovers, played by Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz, are certainly easy on the eyes, but their romantic chemistry is tentative at best.
- Antonym: hard on the eyes
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physically attractive
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