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What does eye-opener mean?

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Noun
  1. (informal, idiomatic) A startling or shocking revelation.
  2. (informal, euphemistic) An alcoholic beverage consumed first thing in the morning.
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Yorkshire couple Lizzie Lowe and David Poole spent two weeks putting the system to the test and found the experience to be an eye-opener.
It was not just this unexpected love of Shakespeare that proved an eye-opener.
Murphy and Clovis were enjoying an eye-opener in their cell as the morning sun streamed through the window bars in thick shafts.
An unexpected eye-opener was our trip to see a soccer match at the national stadium.
But it's his journey tomorrow to Indigenous communities on Cape York that may prove the biggest eye-opener.
The trip proved to be an eye-opener in terms of art, culture, social orderings and, not surprisingly, landscape.

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