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beer goggles

The perception that potential mates are more sexually attractive than one might think when sober, due to intoxication after consumption of alcohol (not necessarily beer). Cheryl always gets beer goggles when she drinks and then brings home some real losers.
See also: beer, goggle

goggle at (someone or something)

To stare at someone or something in surprise with the eyes open very wide. I have some great pictures of the kids goggling at the giraffes at the zoo. It probably wasn't the best reaction, but I was so shocked that I could only goggle at Mary when she told me she was pregnant.
See also: goggle

goggle-eyed

1. With the eyes open very wide in surprise. I have some great pictures of the kids looking positively goggle-eyed at the zoo. Mary's announcement that she was pregnant left most of us goggle-eyed.
2. slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really goggle-eyed!

love goggles

The inability to see any flaws in one's beloved. Dana's love goggles keep her from seeing how controlling her girlfriend is.
See also: goggle, love

the goggle-box

Television, either referring to the object or the medium. Please don't just sit around and loaf in front of the goggle-box all day. The goggle-box is definitely making us all stupider.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

goggle at someone or something

to stare at someone or something with bulging eyes. Don't stand there goggling at me! The child stood there and goggled at the newborn lamb.
See also: goggle
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

beer goggles

(...ˈgɑglæz)
n. imaginary lenses (associated with too much beer) worn by someone for whom all persons of the opposite sex look very attractive. (see also male blindness.) See how Willy is looking at that dog? He’s got his beer goggles on!
See also: beer, goggle

goggle-eyed

and googly-eyed (ˈgɑglæɑɪd and ˈgugliɑɪd)
mod. alcohol intoxicated and staring. Willy was goggle-eyed and couldn’t stand up.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • beer goggles
  • gargler
  • see snakes
  • seeing snakes
  • hot
  • seeing pink elephants
  • see pink elephants
  • see pink spiders
  • seeing pink spiders
  • pink spiders
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Safety glasses and safety goggles are not always interchangeable, as there are several stark differences that separate the two types of protective eyewear.
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A vision of clarity
Through crowd funding, the latest trend in launching startups, Hobeika is looking both to get preorders for her goggles and collect feedback from customers that are already interested in her product.
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Exelis and Selex ES, in October 2012, had signed an exclusive cooperation agreement for the supply of this particular night vision goggle into the Italian market.
ITT Exelis signs contract with Italian Army to provide advanced night vision technology
All aircrew members were wearing night vision goggles. As the wingman troubleshot a problem on the practice LHA deck, the lead aircraft executed several landings with each pilot taking a turn at the controls.
Grampaw Pettibone
Air Force training facility for F-16 fighter pilots, who now regularly train to use night-vision goggles, which have been utilized in recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
LUKE AFB INSTALLS NIGHT VISION GOGGLE SIMULATION
Goggles must stop a 17-grain fragment simulating a projectile traveling at 550 feet per second (approximately twice the energy impact as the spectacles must stop).
Army's new protective/combat eyewear
The ESS low-profile, night vision goggle is for Soldiers who do not need prescription eyeglasses.
New protective eyewear
Following is a detailed description of the authorized commercial goggle kits.
The Army's new protective eyewear
The Goggle Deskbar is a handy utility that allows you to search the Web with Goggle while you are using other computer applications.
Using the Google deskbar
Goggles are undergoing user evaluation at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California; and both goggle and spectacle prototypes are being evaluated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
The Military Eye Protection. (News)
NASA's Mars Mission takes an interesting turn as scientists reveal that astronauts will most likely use swimming goggles to protect their eyes while exploring the Red Planet.
Mars Astronauts Could Use Swimming Goggles In Red Planet
BY MARK ELLIS Industrial Correspondent AMAZON has been accused of plotting to employ Big Brother tactics after it patented goggles that can monitor warehouse staff.
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