Dutch, “Iemand naar de oogen te zien.” The English equivalent is, “to wait on his nod” or beck.
“Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
So many mermaids, tended her iʹ the eyes.”
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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