"perder los ojos"

Question

For making us lose our eyes?

"por hacernos perder los ojos"

I'm sure this is some kind of idiom but I can't find out what it means from Google.

It seems that we need more context here Luciente. Where have you read "Encuentra a Wally y mátalo por hacernos perder los ojos"? Is it the game or what? :) - Benz, Oct 16, 2010

Answer 1

I'm sorry! but I do not agree with any of the options that you have given.

Figuratively, "losing your eyes" is "to be crazy for someone", " to like a lot a person"

One turns his neck to look at the loved person when he sees she passing by him side. He loses him eyes on her.

Pierde los ojos por ella. Se le van los ojos por ella.

"Se le van los ojos" is exactly what you mean and it's very much used, but not "pierde los ojos por ella". I've never heard that expression in Argentina :) - Benz, Oct 16, 2010

Benz is correct. You'd never say "pierde los ojos por ella". You'd say "Se le van" - llindis, Oct 28, 2010

Answer 2

I made my research too, and I found out that where´s waldo is a popular game, in wich you have to find him in a crowd, for instance.

So after playing for some time your sight gets blurry, and it´s like you began to lose your sight.

after that, some students developed another game called ¨Find Waldo and kill him (for making us lose our eyes)¨ and similar names

Haha, yeah, I know what Where's Waldo is and what it was in reference to. - Luciente, Oct 16, 2010

then you know that Waldo/ Wally gave origin to your question? - mediterrunio, Oct 17, 2010

Answer 3

Don't tease us!

Answer 4

Ahhhhh... I understand it now!!!

Haven't you ever played looking for Wally?? lol... They are books where you searched for Wally as Mediterrunio explained. In Argentina we call him Wally, not Waldo. You can certainly lose your eyes looking for him!!!

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This is Wally

And you'll have to find him in places like this:

Answer 5

I thought maybe "to lose sight" as in to lose sight of something, however, I found out that this would be perder algo de vista.

Answer 6

Could it be a literal meaning, like "kill him because he gouged out our eyes"?

As I googled around, it seemed that all the hits involved the concept of literally losing one's sight. "Kill him because he made us lose our sight." It reminds me of Hernán Cortés gouging out Pánfilo de Narvaez's eyes on the pyramid at Zempoala...(my students used to love that part!)

Yeah, more and more Google-ing lead me to think it must be losing sight. - Luciente, Oct 16, 2010

Answer 7

Looking at more and more examples, maybe it means "to go blind"?

More examples:

El miedo a perder los ojos es una angustia infantil que a menudo persiste en algunos adultos.

....But if it literally means "to lose your eyes", what about this:

Un dia fui a la casa de monikia y me estaba echando a perder los ojos con el flash de la camara

Answer 8

Can you give us more context? Where have you read it?

When I looked it up on Google, many hits came up. The particular sentence of mine began with "Encuentra a Wally y mátalo por hacernos perder los ojos." - Luciente, Oct 16, 2010