| 单词 | to look babies |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look babies P1. to look babies: to gaze at one's own reflection in another person's eyes; (hence) to gaze closely and lovingly into another person's eyes. Cf. to cast (also throw) a sheep's-eye at (or upon) at sheep's eyes n. 1a. Now rare.Originally with reference to sense A. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > see reflection in to look babiesa1586 a1586 [see sense A. 4]. 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. i. sig. E1 I cannot thinke, I shall become a coxcombe, To ha'my hare curl'd, by an idle finger,..Mine eyes lookt babies in. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 80 Or when none that's iealous spies, To looke babbies in his eyes. 1682 A. Behn City-heiress iii. i. 33 Sigh'd, and lookt Babies in his gloating Eyes. 1737 E. Cooper Rival Widows v. iii. 101 You will serve well enough to look Babies in one's Eyes, say foolish Things, and play over a thousand Monkey Tricks. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vii. 122 What insignificance you have embraced—and all that you might look babies in the eyes of your fair wife oftener than once a fortnight. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top xi. 107 I could see my face in her pupils, flushed, with my hair tousled. ‘You're looking babies,’ she said almost coyly. ‘If you look long enough, you'll see a baby’. < as lemmas |
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