put someone's eye out

put someone's eye out
put someone's eye out
to puncture or harm someone's eye and destroy its ability to see. •

Careful with that stick or you'll put your eye out.

He fell on a stick and almost put out his eye!


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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