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look sideways at
Idioms and Phrases
Glance at suspiciously or amorously, as in I'm sure the detective was looking sideways at me, and it made me very nervous , or They were looking sideways at each other, and I don't think it was innocent . [Mid-1800s] Also see look askance .Example Sentences
That grounding isn’t absolute; if we find out the toothpaste is tainted, then we’re going to look sideways at the toothpaste company—but knowing that there’s foundational regulatory control does help establish that products we use on a regular basis are safe.
There’s some people that you kind of look sideways at a little, but I think everyone else was like, “Yeah, no, he’s cut.”
"You can look sideways at the way the president talks sometimes, but he's having is a very serious discussion about the future of NATO. And it's happening openly."
Tad used to think about trying to talk to Rashid, but that seemed like a good way to make people look sideways at him—something he had no interest in.
Look sideways at your friend who has had the case for awhile, and note what a lovely patina it has.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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