glad eye
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of glad eye
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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Arsenal may try to muscle in on the Rémy action and are also being linked with a move for Toulouse enforcer Moussa Sissoko, who is also being given the glad eye by Newcastle.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2012
But the villainous psychiatrist maneuvers Kris into a sanity trial, during which Attorney John Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Does de odder mug, de vally gazebo, give him de glad eye?
From The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Everywhere he was welcomed with enthusiasm, and his glad eye beheld the festivities of Christmas with a delight which recalled past emotions, till they wrung his heart.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
He could affect boredom and his exhibition of the glad eye was considered by John's eldest sister to be positively deadly.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
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