glare daggers

English

Verb

glare daggers (third-person singular simple present glares daggers, present participle glaring daggers, simple past and past participle glared daggers)

  1. Synonym of look daggers. [from 19th c.]
    • 1879, Henry Pottinger, “The Suppliants” (chapter XI), in Blue and Green: Or, The Gift of God, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, page 189:
      Hypatius, to do him justice, crimsoned with shame and indignation at the effect of his thoughtless speech, and glared daggers at the aristocratic ruffian beside him.
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