to give an eye to

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• give (your) eye teeth for (something) — informal, informal if you would give your eye teeth for something, you would very much like to have or be that thing. I d give my eye teeth for a house like that. Most women would give their eye teeth to be tall and thin like you …   New idioms dictionary

• give your eye teeth for something do something — give your eye teeth for sth/to do sth idiom (BrE, informal) used when you are saying that you want sth very much • I d give my eye teeth to own a car like that. Main entry: ↑eye teeth …   Useful english dictionary

• give your eye teeth for to do something — give your eye teeth for sth/to do sth idiom (BrE, informal) used when you are saying that you want sth very much • I d give my eye teeth to own a car like that. Main entry: ↑eye teeth …   Useful english dictionary

• give your eye teeth — If you really want something and would be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get it, you would give your eye teeth for it …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• give my eye teeth — give something valuable, give my right arm    Does he like me? I d give my eye teeth to know if he likes me …   English idioms

• give the eye — verb look at with a critical eye When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over • Syn: ↑give the once over • Hypernyms: ↑look • Verb Frames: Somebody s something Someb …   Useful english dictionary

• give an eye to — phrasal : look after : give attention to go into the garden and give an eye to your children Katherine Mansfield * * * give an eye to To attend to • • • Main Entry: ↑eye …   Useful english dictionary

• give your eye teeth —    If you really want something and would be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get it, you would give your eye teeth for it.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• give the eye to — phrasal : to look at people walk past here just to give me the eye Joseph Mitchell especially in admiration or with a more or less open display of sexual interest sailors giving the eye to every girl in the port …   Useful english dictionary

• give the eye —    to look at a stranger in a manner denoting a sexual interest    Unless it is the evil eye, which may cast an unpleasant spell on the victim:     They had been giving each other the eye on and off since he first saw her. (Fiennes, 1996) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• would give your eye teeth for something — would give your eye teeth for something/to do something/spoken phrase used for saying that you wish you could have do something very much I’d give my eye teeth for a house like that. Thesaurus: to want somethingsynonym to want to do… …   Useful english dictionary