goo-goo eyes

goo-goo eyes

A visibly smitten or enamored facial expression, as of one who is romantically interested in someone else. Well, if you keep staring at her with goo-goo eyes, she'll know you like her sooner than later!
See also: eye
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

goo-goo eyes

(ˈgugu ˈɑɪz)
n. flirtatious eyes. (Often with make.) Who’s the chick over there with the goo-goo eyes?
See also: eye
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • googoo
  • make goo-goo eyes at (someone)
  • giggle goo
  • taken with, be
  • be taken with (someone or something)
  • throw (oneself) at (someone's) head
  • sweet on, be
  • be sweet on
  • have eyes for
  • have eyes for (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Plotwise, that's about it, with the pair required to make goo-goo eyes while singing about how they're, like, totally into one another.
In other words, tough luck to those pining to see him don tights for a superhero flick or making macho goo-goo eyes in a romantic comedy.
He abdicated sympathy the moment he started making goo-goo eyes at Mandaric just days after protesting there was no way he'd set foot in Fratton Park ever again.
For, on several occasions in the past, I had caught my wife on her knees in front of the television, making goo-goo eyes and whispering sweet nothings at him through the screen.
"Noel Gallagher was making goo-goo eyes at me and I was really into it.
Anna rolled her famous goo-goo eyes for decades, bragged about the million dollars she made doing it and all the while dismissed the ambitions of suffragettes and other feminists.
"I remember her as a very flashy blonde who wore short skirts, tight tops, and made goo-goo eyes at all the guys," Bess Abell, who was Lady Bird Johnson's top aide, told Knight Ridder's Frank Greve and Ron Hutcheson.
But Ti's substitute gift, found on a rubbish dump, turns out to be much better: a strange green orb that transforms into a cute little barking creature whose goo-goo eyes rival "Shrek's" Puss in Boots.
Alexander and lifelong pal Hephaistion (Jared Leto) make a lot of goo-goo eyes at each other and talk a lot about the love of warriors Achilles and Patroclus.
Despite their Caribbean trip, the couple claim they're not engaged but make goo-goo eyes at each whenever they're asked about marriage.
So precious were the pair - who constantly moan about press attention then make goo-goo eyes at each other in front of banks of photographers - that their paranoid goons barred the premiere's only A-list guest from the inner sanctum.
There will be Premiership managers quaking in their boots at the prospect of him making goo-goo eyes in the direction of England, ready to pit his wits back in the real world.
Doris Day and Dorothy Malone are fabulous as sisters making goo-goo eyes at Gig Young and Frank Sinatra."