when (one) was a twinkle in (one's) father's eye
when (one) was a twinkle in (one's) father's eye
Before one was born. I never knew my grandparents—they died when I was a twinkle in my father's eye.
See also: eye, twinkle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- twinkle in (one's) father's eye
- eye of the wind
- in the eye of the wind
- do (one) in the eye
- do someone in the eye
- pipe (one's) eye
- pipe your eye
- see eye to eye
- see eye to eye, to
- have (one's)/an eye out for (someone or something)