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eye-opener

(literally) Something that causes the eyes to open, or that opens the eyes. (informal) Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious. (informal, idiom) A startling or shocking revelation. (informal, euphemism) A strong alcoholic beverage, especially one consumed in the morning. revelation

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The pretty girl in the bikini was an eye-opener on the beach.

News and current affairs

We need to convince each other that the fight against this common enemy has to be fought with a keen eye to balancing the needs of security with those of human and minority rights.
Similarly, the US should cast a wary eye at Kuchma's decision to send troops to Iraq.
With a dispassionate eye on the long game, what will the president himself be thinking?
In fact, they have more in common than meets the eye, for each speaks of a rupture with the past while incarnating a form of continuity.
Friedrich Nietzsche said that if you look in the eye of the Devil for too long, you risk becoming a devil yourself.
But turning a blind eye is shortsighted, for America and for the Saudis.
Reassuring Iraq's Sunnis that they have a place in the new Iraq will also reassure neighboring Sunni governments, which have mostly turned a blind eye to the support for the insurgency that has come from their lands.
During the 1970's, when the transnational corporations (TNC's) undertaking such investment caught the public eye, many governments believed that the costs of FDI outweighed its benefits, so they controlled it.
The machines can now even be set to imitate famous human players - including their flaws - so well that only an expert eye (and sometimes only another computer!) can tell the difference.
Moreover, new international norms had come to the fore: external powers that previously turned a blind eye to coups, military dictatorships, and repression now rallied around democracy and human rights.
Dr. Khan's televised confession and acceptance of sole responsibility for proliferation activities has done nothing to reduced suspicion that there is more here than meets the eye, and of the Pakistani military's complicity in proliferation.
The stunning opacity of solvency ratios encouraged regulators to turn a blind eye to banks' excessive risk-taking.
This realization does not mean that Europe should turn a blind eye to the nature of Lukashenko's regime.
Yet there's more to journalism than keeping an eye on the government.
But how can we blame that legacy while turning a blind eye to a kind of colonialism against women in these same countries' private homes and public institutions?
In an era of open-ended US government budget deficits and chronic shortfalls in personal saving, America is doomed to suffer subpar savings and massive multilateral trade deficits for as far as the eye can see.
The broad convergence of their strategic objectives in the Asia-Pacific region does not mean that they will see eye-to-eye on all issues.
This has not yet happened - not least because countries such as Germany and Greece hardly see eye to eye.
A member of my family recently had an eye problem, and was referred by her general practitioner to an eye surgeon.
Moreover, with India poking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the eye over her climate-change entreaties, the world could easily see an even more unified and unyielding bloc emerge among developing countries.
The public had poked a sharp stick into the eye of metropolitan cynicism and know-all journalism.
The surgeon examined the eye, said that it didn't need surgery, and sent her back to the general practitioner.

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