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1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. E2 And I besech God graunt hir at that time to haue hir eyes in hir heade euen in that sence in which Salomon placeth a wise mans eyes in his head.

1600 F. Johnson Answer H. Iacob xii. 119 The case is so cleare, as if you have your eies in your head, you can not but see it.

1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. iv. ii. f. 149 What? Haue you no eyes in your head? Can you not distinguish between mine, and these other common beauties?

a1726 M. Clarke Serm. on Several Occasions (1727) 13 You had need have your eyes in your Head, as the wise man has.

1781 J. Moore View Society & Manners Italy I. 66 ‘Have you eyes in your head, Sir!’ continued the connoisseur: ‘Don't you know St. John when you see him?’

1837 Bentley's Misc. May 483 The governor had two eyes in his head, and so he finds out the latitude of the thing.

1888 Advance 19 Apr. 243/3 Nobody with eyes in his head could have passed the week just ended in Berlin without recognizing that if a firebrand comes to the throne the materials are close crowded upon him for a terrible conflagration.

1917 Sun (Baltimore) 18 Nov. (Fiction section) 1/3 ‘Don't tell me you've tried,’ said Mrs. Devens angrily. ‘I've got two eyes in my head. It's my belief you are committed to that Vail girl in some way!’

1960 G. W. Target Teachers (1962) 29 Only I've heard one or two things listening to the sweethearts, and I've got eyes in my head as well as anyone else.

2008 C. Ozick Dictation 146 I was eighteen, with eyes in my head, beginning to know a thing or two.