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know by sight
Recognize someone or something by appearance but not know the name or other details. For example, I know a lot of people by sight from the tennis courts. [1200s]
Example Sentences
He wanted the officers to know by sight that he was a veteran, and someone they could talk to.
Dyslexia’s most visible indicators often don’t emerge until third or fourth grade, when students advance from reading words they know by sight memory and onto more complicated terms.
How would a state trooper know by sight whether a passenger in a vehicle has a driver’s license?
Behind them, an enormous mother, in a brown silk dress, and the father, a rather frail little man I know by sight.
Know by sight and call ten common birds.
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