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glad eye

American  

noun

Informal.
  1. a friendly or interested glance, especially a flirtatious one.


glad eye British  

noun

  1. informal an inviting or seductive glance (esp in the phrase give ( someone ) the glad eye )

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of glad eye

First recorded in 1910–15

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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

He saw with a glad eye the "something" that is everywhere at all times, and in all places, for the poet's and the visionary's eye at least.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden

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 Seaman, Owen, Sir

Pretty, prettiest thing yawning as you lie Watching with glad eye, busy life go by.

From The Adventures of Akbar by Shaw, Byam

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