It's difficult to cast a gimlet eye upon a toddler dressed in a pink patent raincoat and pinafore when she stops by your table to let you admire her outfit.
He scrutinised me with gimlet eyes, then smiled and wished me a nice day.
Looking into the fierce dragon's gimlet eyes, though, he could see that his opponent was having the same thought.
In fact, his trademark look, beside the gimlet eye, was his absolute, total lack of any buttocks.
The cold, hard gimlet eyes seemed to take in every detail at a glance and sneer at my obvious terror.
Derivatives
gimlet-eyed
adjective
When I open a beer, I do not want to be reminded of grey-suited, gimlet-eyed executives bludgeoning satire into an early grave.
Example sentencesExamples
I am fixed with a gimlet-eyed stare: ‘I find it hard to turn anything else into music.’
And he points out a gimlet-eyed eagle perched in a tree.
I took my own kids to see it, ready to have my emotions plundered and, sure enough, before it was halfway through, tears were coursing down my cheeks, much to the disgust of the gimlet-eyed gang along the row.
In one picture, she turns a gimlet-eyed gaze on a curvy babe dancing with a mustached man.
Definition of gimlet eye in US English:
gimlet eye
noun
An eye with a piercing stare.
敏锐的目光
Marimee fixed me with a gimlet eye
Example sentencesExamples
Looking into the fierce dragon's gimlet eyes, though, he could see that his opponent was having the same thought.
He scrutinised me with gimlet eyes, then smiled and wished me a nice day.
It's difficult to cast a gimlet eye upon a toddler dressed in a pink patent raincoat and pinafore when she stops by your table to let you admire her outfit.
The cold, hard gimlet eyes seemed to take in every detail at a glance and sneer at my obvious terror.
In fact, his trademark look, beside the gimlet eye, was his absolute, total lack of any buttocks.