| 单词 | eyeball |
| 释义 | eyeball (aɪbɔːl ) Word forms: eyeballs , eyeballing , eyeballed 1. countable noun Your eyeballs are your whole eyes, rather than just the part which can be seen between your eyelids. 2. verb If you eyeball someone or something, you stare at them. [informal] The guard eyeballed him pretty hard despite his pass. [VERB noun] 3. eyeball to eyeball phrase If you are eyeball to eyeball with someone, you are in their presence and involved in a meeting, dispute, or contest with them. You can also talk about having an eyeball to eyeball meeting or confrontation. [informal] ...the young thug who stands eyeball-to-eyeball with his victim. ...proposals that the two armies end their eyeball to eyeball confrontation and withdraw. 4. up to the eyeballs phrase You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree. [informal, emphasis] He is out of a job and up to his eyeballs in debt. Idioms: be eyeball to eyeball if two people who are disagreeing with each other are eyeball to eyeball, they are physically close together, and it seems likely that they will start arguing or fighting The two of us sat eyeball to eyeball. `Why do you hate me?' she asked, without any apparent emotion. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Translations: Chinese: 眼球, 盯着看 Japanese: 眼球, じっと見る |
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