glad eye

Example Sentences

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Arsenal may try to muscle in on the Rémy action and are also being linked with a move for Toulouse enforcer Moussa Sissoko, who is also being given the glad eye by Newcastle.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012

But the villainous psychiatrist maneuvers Kris into a sanity trial, during which Attorney John Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Does de odder mug, de vally gazebo, give him de glad eye?

From The Intrusion of Jimmy by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Does de Galer mug give him de glad eye?

From The Gem Collector by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

It was difficult to be patient with those swaggering young officers who gave the glad eye to girls whose sweethearts lay dead somewhere between the French and German trenches.

From The Soul of the War by Gibbs, Philip