bright-eyed

Related to bright-eyed: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

bright-eyed

(brīt′īd′)

adj.

1. Having bright eyes.

2. Alert and eager.

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bright-eyed

adj

1. eager; fresh and enthusiastic

2. bright-eyed and bushy-tailed informal keen, confident, and alert

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bright′-eyed`

adj.

1. having bright eyes.

2. alertly eager.

[1585–95]

Translations

bright-eyed

[ˈbraɪtˈaɪd] ADJ → de ojos vivos

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bright-eyed

adj → mit strahlenden Augen; bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (hum inf) → putzmunter (inf)

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The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot chuse but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.

The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot chuse but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.

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585-589) But when he had made the beautiful evil to be the price for the blessing, he brought her out, delighting in the finery which the bright-eyed daughter of a mighty father had given her, to the place where the other gods and men were.

But when she was about to bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athene, Zeus craftily deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own belly, as Earth and starry Heaven advised.

924-929) But Zeus himself gave birth from his own head to bright-eyed Tritogeneia (29), the awful, the strife-stirring, the host-leader, the unwearying, the queen, who delights in tumults and wars and battles.

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