take one's eyes off

take one's eyes off (third-person singular simple present takes one's eyes off, present participle taking one's eyes off, simple past took one's eyes off, past participle taken one's eyes off)

1. (idiomatic) To stop looking at (something).
   • 1967 April, Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, “Can't Take My Eyes Off You” (track A5), in Frankie Valli: Solo, performed by Frankie Valli:

     You're just too good to be true / Can't take my eyes off of you / You'd be like heaven to touch / I wanna hold you so much

• “take one's eyes off”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.