Meanings
- figurativelyidiomaticpluralplural onlyGreediness, or a moment of greediness, for money.
Like other big cities he'd traveled to, the dollar-sign eyes of the young women couldn't resist staring at the fancy automobile he drove.
2011, Dewey Boyd Reynolds, Master of Plagues, page 2841 more example
“Damn,” he said to no one in particular but looking at Trixie with dollar-sign eyes, the hardness displayed toward her softening. “We sure 'nuf gonna be seven-figure niggas, huh?”
2006, Roland S. Jefferson, Damaged Goods: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 147Synonyms: dollar signs in one's eyes
Synonyms & antonyms
nounGreediness, or a moment of greediness, for money.
Origin
Related to the convention of drawing cartoon characters with their eyes replaced by dollar signs in a moment of greed.
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