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bright-eyed
[ brahyt-ahyd ]
adjective
- having bright eyes.
- alertly eager.
bright-eyed
adjective
- eager; fresh and enthusiastic
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed informal.keen, confident, and alert
Word History and Origins
Origin of bright-eyed1
Idioms and Phrases
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, alertly eager; full of energy and enthusiasm:
Get a good night's sleep so you'll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in the morning.
Example Sentences
A bright-eyed Guillermo in Season 6.
Sardar Gul has two malnourished children – three-year-old Umar and eight-month-old Mujib, a bright-eyed little boy he holds on his lap.
I do think a lot of times female protagonists have been very young and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and very plucky.
I do think a lot of times female protagonists have been very young and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and very plucky.
And soon even that tie to the myriad children with whom I’ve shared my life — the milky-skinned infants, the bright-eyed toddlers, the scrappy elementary school explorers, the sullen but still suddenly cuddly tweens, the amazingly capable and occasionally helpful teens — will be broken.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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