A glimmer in the eye
noun phrase
a potential child; a p-ssionate impulse with portent: at that time he wasn’t even born, wasn’t even a gleam in his father’s eye/ your weight was genetically programmed when you were only a glimmer in your parents’ eye/ no, i was not even a twinkle in my mother’s eye (1940s+)
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