look on

[look on] or [look upon] {v.}

1. To regard; consider; think of.

* /The stuff had always been looked on as a worthless factory waste./

* /Until the day Bob made the touchdown, the other boys had looked upon him as rather a sissy./

2. To be an observer; watch without taking part.

* /Fred had never been able to do more than look on at athletic sports./

* /The children played in the park while their mother looked on./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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