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see the sights
Idioms and Phrases
View noteworthy features or objects, especially when visiting a place. For example, It's impossible to see all the sights of Paris in just a week . [Mid-1700s]Example Sentences
“We wanted to see the sights in Florence and have long lunches in the piazzas, but instead we were stuck in our overpriced villas under the air-conditioning.”
Then she let me wander around and see the sights.
It was his first time in Florence, and anyone watching him would have thought he’d gone there to see the sights.
You can travel around the Caribbean islands, head to the Hawaiian Islands or see the sights near the shores of Alaska.
“I love the people, the feel of London,” Parton said, adding that she “unfortunately” didn’t get to see the sights this time around.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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