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单词 roving eye
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Definition of roving eye in English:

roving eye

noun
  • A tendency to flirt or be constantly looking to start a new sexual relationship.

    if his wife wasn't around, he had a roving eye
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was duly teased mercilessly about his roving eye.
    • The path of true love never runs smooth but the journey can be even rockier if one in a couple has a roving eye.
    • Sometimes, his poems of sexual love and lust simply give accurate portraits of his roving eye.
    • We got no sleep whatsoever for days before the election, what with trying to keep a watchful eye on the recruits around the town in case some of them had a roving eye.
    • A woman who knows that her husband has a roving eye and meets many attractive women at work may be especially likely to consent to this.
    • Mrs Boyle suffered many of his habits with relatively good grace, but he knew from painful experience that his roving eye was not one of them.
    • Smith, who started his military career as a cavalier cavalry officer, also had a roving eye, cheating on his wife well into middle age.
    • If you like the place, then chances are you'll come back on other nights also, especially if one or more of the dancing maidens catches your roving eye.
    • Jim has a roving eye for the ladies and his air of transatlantic glamour and his smooth maturity is destined to be a winning combination.
    • A president, or any man with a roving eye, might have been seriously distracted by the young women featured in Townlands.
    • Discounting rumors of his roving eye, like very many middle aged men, this is also a man with his fingers in many a pie.
    • Although he was, in most respects, a happily married man, he had always had a bit of a roving eye.
 
 

Definition of roving eye in US English:

roving eye

noun
  • usually in singular A tendency to flirt or be constantly looking to start a new sexual relationship.

    if his wife wasn't around, he had a roving eye
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mrs Boyle suffered many of his habits with relatively good grace, but he knew from painful experience that his roving eye was not one of them.
    • We got no sleep whatsoever for days before the election, what with trying to keep a watchful eye on the recruits around the town in case some of them had a roving eye.
    • He was duly teased mercilessly about his roving eye.
    • A woman who knows that her husband has a roving eye and meets many attractive women at work may be especially likely to consent to this.
    • If you like the place, then chances are you'll come back on other nights also, especially if one or more of the dancing maidens catches your roving eye.
    • A president, or any man with a roving eye, might have been seriously distracted by the young women featured in Townlands.
    • Smith, who started his military career as a cavalier cavalry officer, also had a roving eye, cheating on his wife well into middle age.
    • The path of true love never runs smooth but the journey can be even rockier if one in a couple has a roving eye.
    • Jim has a roving eye for the ladies and his air of transatlantic glamour and his smooth maturity is destined to be a winning combination.
    • Sometimes, his poems of sexual love and lust simply give accurate portraits of his roving eye.
    • Discounting rumors of his roving eye, like very many middle aged men, this is also a man with his fingers in many a pie.
    • Although he was, in most respects, a happily married man, he had always had a bit of a roving eye.
 
 
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