In front of (one's) very eyes phrase
In plain sight or when one is looking.
They are kissing each other in front of my very eyes. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
The killer took her sister's life in front of her very eyes, which haunted her all the time.
The bandits got away in a black car in front of my very eyes.
If a woman flutters her eyelashes at a man, she opens and closes her eyes rapidly in a coyly flirtatious manner in order to make herself attractive to him.