glare down

glare down

1. To shine or glow powerfully on someone or something. I hope you put on sunscreen, considering how the sun is glaring down on us today.
2. To look someone with intensity so that they yield or submit. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "glare" and "down." That woman kept glaring me down until I gave her the last cherry pie, even though I'd picked it up first.
3. To look at someone or something with anger or disappointment. Glaring down at that parking ticket won't make it go away, you know.
See also: down, glare
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

glare down

v.
1. To shine on or illuminate someone or something strongly from above: The sun glared down on the nomads crossing the desert.
2. To intimidate someone or cause someone to submit by staring: The lawyer glared me down until I was unable to speak.
3. To look directly at someone or something disapprovingly or disappointedly: I glared down on my dog, whom I'd caught chewing on the curtains. The dog glared down at the bone, which had sunk to the bottom of the swimming pool.
See also: down, glare
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
  • accompany on a journey
  • be out of (one's) league
  • be out of somebody's league
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • bargain
  • bargain for (someone or something) with (someone)
  • brief (someone) about (someone or something)
  • brief about
  • a dog in the manger
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Stepping outside, I caught the chill wind that once again reminded me that Cardiff Bay has little poetry, despite the lines by another fine Welsh poet, Gwyneth Lewis, which glare down at one from the Millennium Centre - "In These Stones Horizons Sing".
We do have our share of squirrels and they must fear my might and scamper into the trees to glare down at me.
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I got the glare down to a T, especially when I perched the glasses on the end of my nose.
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It's a Saturday in Dieppe and the fierce gargoyles on the magnificent 14th century church of St Jacques glare down balefully upon the open-air market in the cobbled streets and squares below.
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