make eyes at
Related to make eyes at: see eye to eye, keep an eye out, clap eyes on, up to my eyeballs
make eyes at (one)
To flirt with one by making suggestive eye contact. Is that girl making eyes at me, or am I just imagining it? You can't just make eyes at a person and expect them to come running—you have to talk to them and get to know them!
See also: eye, make
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
make eyes at someone
Fig. to flirt with someone. Mother, he's making eyes at me! Jed tried to make eyes at all the young women.
See also: eye, make
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
make eyes at
Ogle, flirt with, as in To her sister's disgust, she was always making eyes at the boys. Although slightly different versions, such as throw the eye at, are much older, this precise locution was first recorded in William Makepeace Thackeray's Henry Esmond (1852): "She used to make eyes at the Duke of Marlborough." See also give someone the once-over.
See also: eye, make
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- make eyes at (one)
- make eyes at somebody
- make eyes at someone
- under (one's) very eyes
- all eyes are on (someone or something)
- all eyes are on somebody/something
- all eyes are on someone/something
- believe (one's) eyes
- believe eyes
- flick over