a ojos vistas
Spanish
Alternative forms
- a ojos vistos (nonstandard)
Adverb
- (idiomatic) visibly; for all the world to see
- 1940, Reforma medica […] :
- Mas la época actual tiende, a ojos vistas, a despreciar la obra pacífica de la inteligencia
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- 1926, Leopoldo Lugones, “chapter XXIX”, in El Angel de la Sombra:
- —Para la señorita —acertó a decir, confuso, hasta malograr a ojos vistas el cumplimiento que traía preparado.
- "For you, ma'am", he managed to say, all confused, until he visibly ruined the compliment he had prepared.
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Further reading
- “a ojos vistas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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