Seeing Is Believing

Seeing Is Believing

Seeing is believing is an idiom first recorded in this form in 1639 that means "only physical or concrete evidence is convincing".

Seeing is Believing may refer to:

* "Seeing is Believing" (Code Lyoko episode)
* , UFO documentary film
* "Seeing is Believing" (novel), a 1941 mystery novel by John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson"


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  • seeing is believing — ► seeing is believing proverb you need to see something before you can accept that it really exists or occurs. Main Entry: ↑seeing …   English terms dictionary

  • seeing is believing — This idiom means that people can only really believe what they experience personally …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • seeing is believing — proverb you need to see something before you can accept that it really exists or occurs * * * seeing is believing ◇ The expression seeing is believing means that when you actually see something, you have to believe that it exists or is true. I… …   Useful english dictionary

  • seeing is believing — 1609 S. HARWARD MS (Trinity College, Cambridge) 85 Seeing is leeving. 1639 J. CLARKE Parœmiologia Anglo Latina 90 Seeing is beleeving. 1712 J. ARBUTHNOT Lewis Baboon iv. There’s nothing like Matter of Fact; Seeing is Believing. 1848 J. C. & A. W …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • seeing is believing —    This idiom means that people can only really believe what they experience personally.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    This expression means that when you see something you can be sure it exists, or that what you have been told is… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Seeing is believing. — something that you say which means you can only believe that something surprising or strange is true if you see it yourself. I d never have imagined my parents could dance, but seeing is believing …   New idioms dictionary

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