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thousand-yard stare; thousand-meter stare
noun
a lost, unfocused look, especially as the result of brutal combat US
The term was coined in the later years of World War II, first recorded by UP war correspondent George E. Jones.- [W]ould be to lapse into a catatonic gaze – what Army psychiatrists, accustomed to dealing with the fear of combat, call the “thousand yard stare.” — Dan Rather, The Palace Guard, p. 152, 1974
- It’s hard to avoid using “1,000-yard stare.” What I saw in Lawrence’s eyes was the horror, The Horror. — Mark Baker, Nam, p. 111, 1981
- He fully recognizes Pacvo’s 1,000-meter stare, that pale and exhausted, graven look from head to toe. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 95, 1986
- The thousand-yard stare. A marine gets it after he’s been in the shit for too long. — Full Metal Jacket, 1987
- Then Strike saw Andre give Horace the thousand-yard stare and Horace began to lose it as the giant knocko game straight at him. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 282, 1992
- These young men, each wearing the thousand-yard stare in his old man’s eyes, had gone willingly into the inferno at X-Ray[.] — Harold Moore, We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young, p. 312, 1992
- [W]hile the other runners ignored us with those thousand-yard stares as fixed as bayonets, this one slowed down and veered off the asphalt in our direction. — Ethan Morden, How’s Your Romance?, p. 170, 2005
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