Stare Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A wandering eye
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
• All my eye and Betty Martin
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• Am catching
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• Arm candy
• As far as the eye can see
• Avert one's gaze
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Bird's eye view
• Blank look
• Captain Marvel (Nickname of footballer Bryan Robson)
• Cast an eye over
• Catch your eye
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Dirty look
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Don't Look Now (Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland movie)
• Don't know which way to look
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Eye candy
• Eye for a bargain
• Eye it try it buy it! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Eye of the Tiger (Survivor song)
• Eye of the storm
• Eye popping
• Eye someone up and down
• Eye to eye
• Eye up the competition
• Eye watering
• Faraway look
• Funny, you don't look Jewish
• Get your eye in
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Got my eye in
• Got my eye on
• Half an eye
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have a look
• Here's mud in your eye
• Here's one in your eye
• I look at the world and I notice it's turning (The Beatles song lyric)
• I spy with my little eye
• I've got my eye on you
• If you haven't looked at Ford lately, look again (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• In a pig's eye
• In my mind's eye, Horatio
• In the blink of an eye
• In the public eye
• In the twinkling of an eye
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Just watch
• Keep a weather eye open
• Keep an eye on
• Keep an eye open
• Keep an eye out
• Keep watch
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Look Ma, no cavities! (Crest Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Look a fright
• Look after number one
• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
• Look alive
• Look and feel
• Look away now
• Look before you leap
• Look both ways
• Look daggers
• Look death in the eye
• Look down on
• Look down your nose
• Look for the Golden Arches (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Look in on
• Look into
• Look lively
• Look ma, no hands!
• Look no further
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
• Look out
• Look out for number one
• Look over
• Look over your shoulder
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Look someone up and down
• Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In)
• Look the other way
• Look to your laurels
• Look up to
• Look what the cat dragged in
• Look who's talking?
• Look you bach
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Look, no hands
• Meet one's eye
• More than meets the eye
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Never look back
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not on my watch
• Old fashioned look
• One in the eye
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• Put a sparkle in your eye
• Quicker than the eye
• Raining stair rods
• See eye to eye
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• Side eye (a sidelong glance)
• Sleep with one eye open
• Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
• Spit in the eye of
• Stare into the abyss
• Stare out
• Stark staring mad
• Steely gaze
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Take a butchers (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Take a cold hard look
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Eye into the Eyes (CBS advertising slogan)
• The Men Who Stare At Goats (Jeff Bridges / George Clooney / Ewan McGregor movie)
• The all seeing eye
• The answer is staring you in the face
• The apple of his eye
• The eye in the sky
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The look is Immac-ulate (Immac Depilatory advertising slogan)
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Through the eye of a needle
• Turn a blind eye
• Watch and learn
• Watch my chops
• Watch my smoke
• Watch out
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Watch over
• Watch the birdy
• Watch the sparks fly
• Watch the time
• Watch the world go by
• Watch this space
• Watch you like a hawk
• Watch your back
• Watch your language
• Watch your mouth
• Watch your step
• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare (from a poem by Davies)
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• White man's watch
• With a jaundiced eye
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
• You look as though you've seen the ghost
• You look... Mahvelous! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay (Camay Soap advertising slogan)