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Idioms and Phrases

Perceive flashing lights, especially after a blow to one's head. For example, A swinging door hit me and I really saw stars . [Late 1800s]

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From Tiger Woods to Carrie Prejean, see stars that also got down digitally.

She fetched me a slap in the face that made me see stars, and my ears rung like a brass kettle for a quarter of an hour.

But though it may not listen to your preaching, it will wear your boots, or buy your flour, or see stars through your telescope.

And on beyond them, far overhead, he could even see stars, blurred a trifle by the material through which he observed them.

Guilty or innocent, he makes them all see stars in the cause of public order.

It was no dream whack, I can tell you, but a real live double-fisted one, that made me see stars.

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