look daggers
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.
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How to use look daggers in a sentence
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.
Uncle Rutherford's Nieces | Joanna H. MathewsNurse will look daggers at me and think I've been bullying you.
Cynthia | Leonard MerrickThey look daggers at me if I put my head into the schoolroom.'
The Two Sides of the Shield | Charlotte M. YongeYou might look daggers at him for an hour and he would not notice it, and it would not trouble him if he did.
Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. JeromeHe 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.
The Story Of Julia Page | Kathleen Norris
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