Give someone the fish-eye
verb phrase
To look or stare at someone in a cold, contemptuous, or menacing way: A well-fed man in tails opened the door, gave them the fish eye/ who gave me such hairy eyeballs that I want to slink back ( fish-eye form 1940s+, others 1960s+)
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- Give someone the glad eye
verb phrase To look or glance at invitingly; gaze enticingly at: A tipsy actress gives her man, Donald, the glad eye (1903+)
- Give someone the glad hand
verb phrase To greet and welcome effusively: I gave ’em all the glad hand, but they voted for the other bum anyway (1895+)
- Give someone the go-by
Related Terms give someone or something a miss (or the goby)
- Give someone the heave-ho
verb phrase To dismiss or reject someone; GIVE someone THE AIR: It took Lisa two years to give her boyfriend the heave-ho (1940s+)