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Idioms and Phrases
Glare, stare fiercely, as in When she started to discuss their finances, he looked daggers at her . This metaphoric term, likening an angry expression to a dagger's thrust, dates from ancient times and has appeared in English since about 1600.Discover More
Example Sentences
Enyhow, I know ye've got to come to city ways when ye're to the city; folks kinder look daggers at ye ef ye don't.
Nurse will look daggers at me and think I've been bullying you.
They look daggers at me if I put my head into the schoolroom.'
You might look daggers at him for an hour and he would not notice it, and it would not trouble him if he did.
He was very musical, you know; he'd look daggers at you if you happened to sneeze in the middle of one of his Beethoven sonatas.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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