scales fall from someone's eyes
English
editEtymology
editFrom Acts 9:18.[1]
Verb
editscales fall from someone's eyes (third-person singular simple present scales fall from someone's eyes, present participle scales falling from someone's eyes, simple past scales fell from someone's eyes, past participle scales have fallen from someone's eyes)
- To be suddenly able to see a situation clearly.
- 2015 August 7, Marina Hyde, “Forget law and order: today’s police officers dream of going viral”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In government, meanwhile, Theresa May is the first home secretary in memory not to have appeared petrified of the police, while for many in her party, Plebgate was the moment at which the scales fell from their eyes as far as the cops were concerned.
References
edit- ^ The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Acts 9:18: “And immediatly there fell from his eyes as it had bene scales, and he receiued sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”
Further reading
edit- “the scales fall from someone’s eyes”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.