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unable to believe one's eyes
vs
wide-eyed
unable to believe one's eyes
wide-eyed
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.
Astonished or surprised.
How often have the words
unable to believe one's eyes
and
wide-eyed
occurred in a corpus of books?
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