give the glad eye

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   look seductively at someone

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Questions about give the glad eye

What does give the glad eye mean?

give the glad eye means "look seductively at someone".

Is give the glad eye a common word?

give the glad eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.