squint out of
squint out (of) (something)
To purse one's eyelids half-shut while looking outward through an eye, opening, or apparatus. It was so steamy in the room that I spent the whole time squinting out of foggy glasses. She squinted out the window, trying to catch a glimpse of the movie star in the dazzling sunshine. My left eye is totally blind, so if I forget to wear my glasses, I have to squint out of my right eye to see anything at all.
See also: out, squint
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
squint out of something
1. to cast one's gaze from something, such as a place of concealment, with one's eyes partly closed. The prisoner squinted out of the little hatch in the door to his cell. You could see that many people were squinting out of the windows, trying to get a good view of the movie star who was visiting.
2. to cast one's gaze through something, such as glasses, one eye, etc., with one's eyes partly closed. she squinted out of one eye in the bright sun. Tony squinted out of his glasses and his mother decided that he needed to have his eyes checked again.
See also: of, out, squint
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- squint out (of) (something)
- squint
- squint at
- squint at (someone or something)
- put two fingers up at (someone or something)
- put/stick two fingers up at somebody
- stick two fingers up at (someone or something)
- steamy
- (one's) shutters
- shutters