vedere di buon occhio

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Italian

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Etymology

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Literally, to see of good eye. Compare French voir d’un bon œil.

Verb

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vedére di buon occhio (first-person singular present védo di buon occhio, first-person singular past historic vìdi di buon occhio, past participle vìsto di buon occhio or (less popular) vedùto di buon occhio, first-person singular future vedrò di buon occhio, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to look kindly or favorably on
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Alle superiori avevo divorato le opere di Philip Roth, Saul Bellow e Norman Mailer, toccato da storie di uomini che cercavano il loro posto in un'America che non li vedeva di buon occhio.
      In high school, I'd devoured the works of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer, moved by stories of men trying to find their place in an America that didn't welcome them.
      (literally, “In high school, I had devoured the works of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Norman Miller, touched by stories of men who were trying to find their place in an America that did not look kindly on them.”)

Conjugation

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