see double

1. 1.

   see things as if they were there twice

   “After taking the drug, John saw double”

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Questions about see double

What does see double mean?

see double means "see things as if they were there twice".

Is see double a common word?

see double is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.