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i've seen a better looking head on a grub wormSomeone that drank all night before going to work with hair uncombed an bloodshot eyesRate it:

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sit on thornsTo be in a painful or embarrassing situation; to be in constant fear of being found out.Rate it:

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a bed of nailsa problematic, difficult, or uncomfortable situation or circumstance; anything painful, challenging, or unpleasantRate it:

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baby bluesBlue eyes.Rate it:

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elle fait la carpe pâmée (fam.)She turns up the whites of her eyes; She pretends to be ill; She looks like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.Rate it:

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rub salt in someone's woundsTo make a painful situation even worse (even with the best of intentions).Rate it:

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deer in the headlightsA mental state of high arousal caused by anxiety fear, panic, surpriseand/or confusion, or substance abuse. The behavioral signs are like a deer subjected to a car's headlights, such as widely opened eyes and a lack of motor reactions.Rate it:

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familiarity breeds contemptThe more acquainted one becomes with a person, the more one knows about his or her shortcomings and, hence, the easier it is to dislike that person.1894, H. Rider Haggard, The People Of The Mist, ch. 25:This was the beginning of evil, for if no man is a hero to his valet de chambre, much less can he remain a god for long in the eyes of a curious woman. Here, as in other matters, familiarity breeds contempt.Rate it:

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la lumière me tire les yeuxThe light hurts my eyes.Rate it:

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squint like a bag of nailsTo squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.Rate it:

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In the LimelightAll eyes on someone, all focus and attention on particular person or thingRate it:

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lever les yeux au cielto roll one's eyesRate it:

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suspicere(in) caelumto raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky.Rate it:

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twinkle in one's father's eyeA notional look of anticipation or hope (either for sex or a child) in one's father's eyes at or around the time of one's conception.Rate it:

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ante oculos ponere aliquidto bring a thing vividly before the eyes.Rate it:

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avoir des yeux derrière la têteto have eyes in the back of one's headRate it:

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blue-eyedOf a person or animal, having blue eyes.Rate it:

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cet homme rêve tout éveilléThat man dreams with his eyes open.Rate it:

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come to termsTo accept or resign oneself to something emotionally painful.Rate it:

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come to terms withTo accept or resign oneself to something emotionally painfulRate it:

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cry uncleTo beg for mercy; to give up; to ask to stop (something painful or unbearable).Rate it:

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des yeux à fleur de têteGoggle eyes. Rate it:

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dichosos los ojos que te venlong time no see, you're a sight for sore eyesRate it:

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duck duck gooseA children's game where kids sit in a circle facing each other with their eyes closed. One child is designated "it" and walks around the outside of the circle saying "duck" as he/she touches each child's head. Finally, instead of saying "duck" the person who is it says "goose!" then runs forward around the circle and tries to sit down in the spot where the "goose" was sitting. The goal of the game is for the person who is "it" to sit down before the "goose" catches him/her. If he/she does sit down before being touched/tagged, then the "goose" becomes "it" and the process begins again. If the "goose" catches the person who was "it" then the person who was "it' is out of the game and the circle moves in closer/smaller until only one sitting winner remains.Rate it:

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easy on the eyeAlternative form of easy on the eyes.Rate it:

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elle a des yeux à la perdition de son âmeHer eyes are so lovely that they will be her ruin.Rate it:

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faire les yeux en coulisseTo make sheep’s eyes; To ogle.Rate it:

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fermer les yeuxto shut one's eyesRate it:

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glance overto quickly inspect something with the eyesRate it:

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handsome is as handsome doesA person's good actions, rather than his outward appeal, define his handsomeness in the eyes of others.Rate it:

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hold on to your seatPrepare for: something exciting or unexpected, e.g. a bumpy ride, a shocking revelation, “you may want to avert your eyes”Rate it:

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il a les yeux au beurre noir (pop.)He has a couple of black eyes; He has his eyes in mourning.Rate it:

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il a les yeux battusHe has a tired look about his eyes.Rate it:

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il a les yeux cernésHe has dark circles round his eyes.Rate it:

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in one's faceIn front of someone's face; before someone's eyes.Rate it:

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j'ai voulu voir par moi-mêmeI wish to see with my own eyes.Rate it:

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jemandem das Fell über die Ohren ziehento pull the wool over someone's eyesRate it:

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jemandem Sand in die Augen streuento pull the wool over someone's eyesRate it:

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la niaise! pleurer à chaudes larmes pour une vétilleThe silly girl! to cry her eyes out for a trifle.Rate it:

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lacrimis obortiswith tears in one's eyes.Rate it:

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le roi jean a crevé les yeux à arthurKing John caused Arthur’s eyes to be put out.Rate it:

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les yeux à fleur de têteGoggle eyes (i.e. on a level with the cheek-bone and fore-head).Rate it:

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look throughTo search, either with the eyes or by handRate it:

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luminibus orbare aliquemto deprive a person of his eyes.Rate it:

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megoInitialism of my eyes glaze over : used to indicate the speaker's boredom or impatience with some subject or activity.Rate it:

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multa acerba expertus esthe has had many painful experiences.Rate it:

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oculi in vultu alicuius habitanthis eyes are always fixed on some one's face.Rate it:

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oculis privare aliquemto deprive a person of his eyes.Rate it:

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oculos (aures, animum) advertere ad aliquidto turn one's eyes (ears, attention) towards an object.Rate it:

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oculos figere in terra and in terramto keep one's eyes on the ground.Rate it:

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