SHE was the only girl in our engineering class. When she walked into the class for the first time, all eyes were on her. I have always had a glad eye, and generally keep an eye out for beautiful girls. She caught my eye at once. She was, without doubt, the prettiest girl I had ever set eyes on. I didn’t hear a word my professor said that day. Instead, I spent the whole day making eyes at her. There were other pretty girls in college but after that day I only had eyes for her.

In the months that followed, I found that I couldn’t keep my eyes off her. In my eyes, she was the one for me. My friends told me that she was blind to love but I didn’t see eye to eye with them. I was so besotted with her that I had closed my eyes to all her faults. At that time I would have gladly given my eye teeth to go out with her.

When one day she returned my smile, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The next day I told her how I felt but she just laughed. That day when I went home I cried my eyes out. Although since then I have not had the courage to look her in the eyes ever again, but I suppose the incident did teach me that a girl who is a sight for sore eyes, might have just the opposite effect on the soul!

All eyes are on someone or something: everyone is looking at or paying attention to someone or something

To have a glad eye: to be romantically inclined

Keep an eye out for someone or something: to watch carefully for someone or something to appear

Catch someone’s eye: to be attractive or different enough to be noticed by other people

Lay/set eyes on someone or something: to see someone or something for the first time

Make eyes at someone: to look at someone in a way that shows you find them sexually attractive

Only have eyes for someone: if someone only has eyes for someone else, they only love and are interested in that one person

Can’t take/keep your eyes off someone or something: to be unable to stop looking at someone or something, especially because they are very attractive or interesting

In someone’s eyes: in someone’s opinion

Don’t see eye to eye: if two people don’t see eye to eye, they don’t agree with each other

To close/shut your eyes to something: to pretend that something bad does not exist because you do not want to deal with it

To give your eye teeth to do something: used to express a strong desire to do something

Couldn’t believe your eyes: if you say that you couldn’t believe your eyes when you saw something, you mean that you were very surprised by it.

Cry your eyes out: to cry a lot and for a long time

To look someone in the eye/eyes: to look directly at someone without fear or shame

A sight for sore eyes: someone or something that you feel very happy to see

(Reference: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms)