Expressions with the word EYE

Have you ever thought of how much privileged a bird's eye view is? That's the idea of our first expression with the word EYE. Imagine for instance you live on the last floor of a very tall building. When you talk about it with your friends, they ask you what you think of it and here's what you say: It's always nice to have a bird's eye view of the town from the window of my bedroom every morning. When you have a bird's eye view, you can see a large area.

But if a bird's eye view is so privileged, imagine how much of the opposite a worm's eye view would be. When you have a worm's eye view of something, you only know or understand a part of it, usually the worst or least important part. See that this expression doesn't allude to the act of seeing something with the eyes, but the bad perspective and understanding someone has of something. For example, you're reading a book about society, but it is actually not a good book. You say it's bad because it provides you with a worm's eye view of society.

Moving on to our third expression, we have "able to do something with closed eyes". That's a very intuitive expression because we have the same expression in Portuguese, and it does look like it. Imagine you're a great cook. You've been practicing cooking since you were a little child. You're so overconfident about it you usually say you're able to cook with eyes closed. That is to say, you're able to cook very easily, even without having to think about it or look at it. Of course, that's kind of an exaggeration, but that's something you say when you want to emphasize what you're saying. That's it for today. Talk to you next time!