stink eye
n.— «Chris Marlowe expects to see some “stink eyes” Saturday. The TV volleyball analyst, working NBC’s U.S. championships this weekend, says that piece of beach volleyball lingo—translation: menacing glares—will apply if teams led by Sinjin Smith and Karch Kiraly meet in the Saturday final. “They really hate each other,” says Marlowe.» —“ABC’s Jackson not shy about expressing opinion” by Michael Hiestand USA Today Aug. 22, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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