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stink eye

stink eye
 n.— «You know when you’re out of favor if she doesn’t give you a peck on the cheek after work.…If she doesn’t like you, she gives you the stink eye.» —“‘Auntie Louise’: Liveliest Living Legend in Hawaii” by John Dreyfuss Los Angeles Times Sept. 27, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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