round-eyed

[round-eyed] or [wide-eyed] also [large-eyed] {adj.}

Very much surprised; astonished; awed.

* /The people were round-eyed when they learned what the computer could do./

* /The children were wide-eyed at the sight of the Christmas tree and didn't make a sound./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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