Your life flashes before your eyes

[poli]

Originally Posted by chileno

http://www.justthink.org/media-resou...t-of-your-eyes

I was born in Chile, so i wouldn't know any better.

By the way, have you tried Chilean wines?

He's in Spain. It's not as easy to find non-domestic wines there as it is
here.
I stand by Pericles. It's "I saw my life pass before my eyes." Before
can mean en frente de, but it sounds very formal. More often it means antes.

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Not at all. The BNC records 15 instances of 'before your eyes' and none of 'in front of your eyes'. For reasons I can't explain (Spanish wine again) the former sounds normal and correct, and the latter sounds wrong.

COCA has some "in front of your eyes", although not as many as "before your eyes". I think that "His life passed before his eyes" or "His life flashed in front of his eyes" sound about equally natural.

[Perikles]

It is also quite common, in BrE at least, when you are an eye-witness to something improbable, you might say 'There she was, before my very eyes'. Never 'in front of'.

(And yes, Chilean wine is excellent, but expensive here.)

[chileno]

Originally Posted by pjt33

COCA has some "in front of your eyes", although not as many as "before your eyes". I think that "His life passed before his eyes" or "His life flashed in front of his eyes" sound about equally natural.

So the usage is there.

Has anybody read answer #2?

All I did was to answer to Angelicas translation and that to me, what she said, was related to in front of instead of before...

Am I wrong still?

Maybe I need my medication....Perikles, about that wine of yours...

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by chileno

Has anybody read answer #2?

Am I wrong still?

Maybe I need my medication....Perikles, about that wine of yours...

I read it. Now I'm too confused to be sure about anything. If I say you're right will you change the subject?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

I read it. Now I'm too confused to be sure about anything. If I say you're right will you change the subject?

I understand is not as used but I've heard it before from Americans.

Are you trying to change the subject in order to not share wine?!

OMG!

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by chileno

Are you trying to change the subject in order to not share wine?!

No, not at all, just that there is a limit to how interesting this point is, and I think we have reached it.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

No, not at all, just that there is a limit to how interesting this point is, and I think we have reached it.

Right.

Usually I try to make it a bit more interesting by adding other words, so people get their heads scratching, and some of them will dare to look up the words etc.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

So one can be in front of someone, but before his/her eyes, right?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

So one can be in front of someone, but before his/her eyes, right?

see.