Vocabulary

Idioms

Unit 3 : Seeing is Understanding

Literal meaning

 Wide open
 Eye-opener=an event or situation that proves to be unexpectedly enlightening(=give [someone]
greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation)
 ‘a visit to the docks can be a fascinating eye-opener’
 With hindsight=in retrospect
 Blinkers=things that partly cover a horse’s eyes so that it can only look straight ahead
 Mud=very wet earth
 Short-sighted=not able to see things clearly If they are far away from you
 To lose sight of

See the point

 To make yourself perfectly clear

 To see something through somebody’s eyes
 With your eyes (wide) open=knowing that there could be many problems in a situation
 To see reason/sense=to change a decision because you realize that you are wrong
 Not see/look beyond/past the end of your nose=to only consider what is very close to you, what
is very obvious, or what is happening in the future
 To see through=to recognise that something is wrong and not be tricked by it

A real eye-opener

 Blinkered=having or showing a narrow or limited outlook

 To get the picture=to understand something, especially something that someone tells you
indirectly
 To clear up the misunderstanding

As clear as mud

 As clear as mud=very difficult to understand

 Short-sighted=dealing with things that are happening now but failing to consider what will
happen in the future
 Lose sight of=to forget an important fact, or to forget what you main aim is, because you are
thinking too much about other things
 To see the light