| 单词 | a gleam in a person's eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa gleam (also glint, twinkle) in a person's eye s. a gleam (also glint, twinkle) in a person's eye and variants: a barely formed idea; spec. applied to a child who has not yet been conceived. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] glimmeringc1380 glimpse1570 impression1613 sense1655 idea1712 conception1796 feeling1811 glimmer1837 a gleam (also glint, twinkle) in a person's eye1934 1934 I. Kahal in Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. Congress Copyright Office) (1935) 29 620/2 When you were a smile on your mother's lips and a twinkle in your daddy's eye. 1941 Gen. Mag. & Hist. Chron. Jan. 188 Of course men talked of bridges, in that romantic way in which they dreamed of continental railroads when these were only a gleam in an imaginative eye. 1965 H. Pinter Homecoming i. 36 When I was just a glint in your eye. What was it like? 1966 Guardian 10 Nov. 3/7 The proposal remains but a twinkle in the Home Secretary's eye. 1988 Locus Apr. 36/3 It seems like no more than a decade or two since the magazine was just a gleam in your eye. 2003 Smithsonian May 110/2 Consider David Bohm's idea of the ‘implicate order’, still only a gleam in the eye of physics, that all of physical reality might be thought of as a holographic projection. < as lemmas |
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