glare daggers
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[edit]Verb
[edit]glare daggers (third-person singular simple present glares daggers, present participle glaring daggers, simple past and past participle glared daggers)
- 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.