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look daggers

Idioms  
  1. 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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But if one tears a lace flounce, you know, they look daggers.

From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

But the flock never stopped—on it went and all that the goody and the man did was to look daggers at the smith for making fun of them.

From East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by Thorne-Thomsen, Gudrun

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.

From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

Mrs. Barr, on this, ceased to look daggers and substituted icicles; but on the hateful beauty moving away, dropped the icicles, and resumed the poniards.

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles

She could only look daggers at him, with occasionally an expression of staring wonder at a nonchalance that disproved twenty years of authority.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

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