# Equivalents in other languages of "Eagle-Eyed" (someone with sharp vision) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 2, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964 "2026-04-02T12:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/21 "2026-04-02T22:36:45Z")
1800 for IR and 1801 for UV? Then it is as I thought, but not for the reasons (microphones and recording) I thought: The dog whistle or **[Galton’s whistle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle)** was not invented until 1876, so ultralight and infralight were discovered before ultrasound. Infrasound comes even later: **[1957](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound#History_and_study)**! ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/22 "2026-04-02T23:32:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I suppose that if I were to associate any animal with especially sharp hearing, though, it’d be a bat? Of course in English bats are the avatar for bad vision - “Blind as a bat”. I’ve heard rabbits used for acute hearing - “Ears like a rabbit” - but I’m not sure how widespread that is. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/23 "2026-04-03T00:10:41Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > “Ears like a rabbit” Or “like a hare.” ---
**Author:** ![LAphofol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/laphofol/32/21003_2.png) [@LAphofol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAphofol)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/24 "2026-04-03T05:29:40Z")
Lynx (the word in the idiom, not the animal) is derivated from the Argonauts Lynceus who had a really sharp vision. ---
**Author:** ![LAphofol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/laphofol/32/21003_2.png) [@LAphofol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAphofol)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/25 "2026-04-03T05:36:55Z")
Done in my profile (instagram page) thanks for your kind message ---
**Author:** ![LAphofol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/laphofol/32/21003_2.png) [@LAphofol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAphofol)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/26 "2026-04-03T06:50:33Z")
Fantastic, i would have never found this one ---
**Author:** ![LAphofol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/laphofol/32/21003_2.png) [@LAphofol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAphofol)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/27 "2026-04-03T07:06:52Z")
Here is an example [![](https://i.ibb.co/7xJzMphm/1600-LEGO-EXP0008.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/7xJzMphm/1600-LEGO-EXP0008.jpg) This one is “Courir sur le haricot” (Litterally : Running on the beans) which is the french equivalent of “to get on someone’s nerves” If it’s OK with you, i will open regularly some threads about other idioms asking for the translation in other languages and show you the result in pictures. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/28 "2026-04-03T13:54:32Z")
Holy cow! That is so freaking clever! Looking at your Instagram makes me wish I remembered more of my high school/college French. _Tant pis…_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/29 "2026-04-03T16:33:44Z")
> [@LAphofol](#): > > This one is “Courir sur le haricot” (Litterally : Running on the beans) which is the french equivalent of “to get on someone’s nerves” I always liked _ **jeter un pavé dans la mare** _ (throw a cobblestone in the pond) as an expression for causing trouble (upset the apple cart, e.g.). ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/30 "2026-04-03T16:39:03Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I always liked _ **jeter un pavé dans la mare** _ (throw a cobblestone in the pond) as an expression for causing trouble (upset the apple cart, e.g.). For a very different take, the equivalent expression in German would be “die Pferde aufscheuchen”, “to spook the horses”. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/31 "2026-04-03T19:12:44Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > “to spook the horses”. In an early episode of _Endeavour,_ when Morse is still new to dead bodies, Home Office Pathologist Dr. Max DeBryn invites him into the room with a murder victim, saying, “There’s nothing here to frighten the horses.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/32 "2026-04-04T00:38:56Z")
> [@Tusculan](#): > > Dutch would be _haviksogen_ (hawk’s eyes), certainly not lynx. I vaguely remember in Ukrainian- or the dialect that my Grandmother used- it was hawk-eyed also. Dont quote me on this. I remember so little of the language, but eagles were Russian and German, and thus not preferred. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/33 "2026-04-05T21:19:20Z")
In Spain we say _ **liarla parda** _ (rather hard to translate… “to create a brown mess”, perhaps?) The fecal implications are rather clear in my opinion… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/34 "2026-04-05T21:34:57Z")
Well, you are a nation that has a turd as a Christmas tradition, so maybe that figures out. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/35 "2026-04-05T21:42:28Z")
The internet disagrees with that explanation, but who trusts the internet? **[Many](https://blog.spanishcourseinspain.com/liarla-parda/)** write it (link in Spanish), but with suspiciously similar language, as if they had written off each other or an AI. As for the turd tradition, I am not sure: Maybe you mean the Catalan tradition of the **[caganer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer)**, or the also Catalan tradition of **[caga tió](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal#Caga_ti%C3%B3_song)**? Or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/36 "2026-04-05T21:45:51Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Maybe you mean the Catalan tradition of the **[caganer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer)** Yeah, that’s what I was thinking about. I didn’t remember that it was a Catalan tradition, not for the whole of Spain, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/37 "2026-04-06T08:30:47Z")
> [@LAphofol](#): > > (Litterally : Running on the beans) I assumed they were runner beans. ---
**Author:** ![LAphofol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/laphofol/32/21003_2.png) [@LAphofol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAphofol)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2026, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/38 "2026-04-08T06:00:12Z")
Thanks to you all. I have to show you the pictures I have made and the note that goes with it. (these links will expire in 2 weeks, so that when the photos will be published on my Instagram/Facebook, no one will be able to search for answers / spoilers) The Picture [![](https://i.ibb.co/8gHWyC1D/1600-LEGO-EXP0248.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/8gHWyC1D/1600-LEGO-EXP0248.jpg) And the note [![](https://i.ibb.co/QFnk5FJH/247-Avoir-Des-Yeux-De-Lynx.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/QFnk5FJH/247-Avoir-Des-Yeux-De-Lynx.png) I hope you’ll like it ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/39 "2026-04-08T08:30:14Z")
For Spanish I would change “Ojo de águila” for “Tener vista de lince”. If you prefer to leave out the verb “Vista de lince” will do. “Vista de halcón” is also a common expression. ---
**Author:** ![LAphofol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/laphofol/32/21003_2.png) [@LAphofol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAphofol)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equivalents-in-other-languages-of-eagle-eyed-someone-with-sharp-vision/1028964/40 "2026-04-08T08:41:24Z")
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