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The idiom is referencing a snake -- when they shed skin, the scales over their eyes turn cloudy and they can't see well until it sheds off. When the scales fall off, their vision returns. When the scales fall from your eyes, suddenly you see the truth.
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To have the scales fall from his/her eyes means that he/she has learned the truth, or realized he/she had a misconception.
Origin:
In Acts 9:18 in the New King James Version of The Bible, it records how a man (Saul, who is later renamed Paul) is blinded by intense light. A Christian man (Ananias) was sent by God to visit him and restore his sight. It records that when Ananias touched him, scales fell from his eyes. This may have been cataracts or some other growth. Up until this point, Saul had been a persecutor of the Christians, but at the time that the scales fell from his eyes, he converted to Christianity.
Thus this term has now come to be figurative, meaning that a misconception has been righted.
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