This is an eye opener to all of us vs This is an eye opener for all of us

Both phrases are commonly used and correct. They convey the same meaning and can be used interchangeably. The prepositions 'to' and 'for' are both acceptable in this context.

Last updated: March 26, 2024

This is an eye opener to all of us

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that something has provided new insight or understanding to everyone involved.

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Last night was a bit of an eye-opener.
Right? And that was an eye opener for me.
For the ill-informed it was an eye-opener as to current human rights abuses, restrictions of freedoms and political and religious repression, with different accounts coming from each country.
I am not only thinking of Kosovo, which has been so important to us as an eye-opener.
But I also learned that some people in this world do have to work that hard every day, and that was an eye-opener.
Showing up in Alaska for the first time, everybody says it's a mind-blowing experience, it's an eye opener, all that stuff.
It was quite an eye-opener for them, that there's such a large base of popular support for file sharing and the general copyright issues.
That, my friend, was an eye-opener,
How different positions have been put forward at different times here in Parliament has also been an eye-opener.
How about an eye opener for an eye opener?
So what I'm saying is it's an eye-opener
No one can deny that the Whataburger Classic was an eye-opener, and taking down a number eight team, the Lions showed something that the world better sit up and pay attention to.
I must say, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, that a dossier involving EUR 4.5 billion in State aid and a private contribution of just EUR 500 million is indeed an eye-opener.
I regard this report as an eye-opener; it raises awareness, cries out and brings us face to face with diseases that we cannot even pronounce properly even if we have any idea how many millions of people suffer from them.
When Dr. Ryan came and visited me and the missus at our house, I mean, it was a real eye-opener.
All right, I admit it's a little "cart before the horse", but her reaction was a real eye-opener.
Getting shot at in the forest was a real eye-opener.
We now owe Herr Bangemann a debt of gratitude for yet another eye-opener.
Confinement was a real education, a real eye-opener.
For me, the visit was a real eye-opener.

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this is an eye opener for all of us

This is an eye opener for all of us

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that something has provided new insight or understanding to everyone involved.

Show examples from the web [+]

Right? And that was an eye opener for me.
It was quite an eye-opener for them, that there's such a large base of popular support for file sharing and the general copyright issues.
How about an eye opener for an eye opener?
Last night was a bit of an eye-opener.
For the ill-informed it was an eye-opener as to current human rights abuses, restrictions of freedoms and political and religious repression, with different accounts coming from each country.
I am not only thinking of Kosovo, which has been so important to us as an eye-opener.
But I also learned that some people in this world do have to work that hard every day, and that was an eye-opener.
Showing up in Alaska for the first time, everybody says it's a mind-blowing experience, it's an eye opener, all that stuff.
That, my friend, was an eye-opener,
How different positions have been put forward at different times here in Parliament has also been an eye-opener.
So what I'm saying is it's an eye-opener
No one can deny that the Whataburger Classic was an eye-opener, and taking down a number eight team, the Lions showed something that the world better sit up and pay attention to.
I must say, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, that a dossier involving EUR 4.5 billion in State aid and a private contribution of just EUR 500 million is indeed an eye-opener.
I regard this report as an eye-opener; it raises awareness, cries out and brings us face to face with diseases that we cannot even pronounce properly even if we have any idea how many millions of people suffer from them.
One of the organisers, Jan Söderlind of the Nordic Timber Council said "the aim was to serve as an eye-opener for the members of the European Parliament as regards wood's role in helping to reduce climate change."
When Dr. Ryan came and visited me and the missus at our house, I mean, it was a real eye-opener.
All right, I admit it's a little "cart before the horse", but her reaction was a real eye-opener.
Getting shot at in the forest was a real eye-opener.
We now owe Herr Bangemann a debt of gratitude for yet another eye-opener.
Confinement was a real education, a real eye-opener.

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this is an eye opener to all of us

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This is an eye opener to all of us vs This is an eye opener for all of us