give someone the eye

present singular third person gives someone the eye · participle present giving someone the eye · past gave someone the eye · participle past given someone the eye

1. idiomaticTo show flirtatious signs or sexual interest/attraction with one's eyes.

   I saw him giving me the eye as soon as I entered the bar.

   1 more example

   She was sort of cute, the blonde one, and I started giving her the old eye a little bit, but just then the waiter came up for my order.

   1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 90

   Synonyms: eye up, give someone the glad eye

2. idiomaticTo give someone the stink eye.

   I saw him giving me the eye as soon as I entered the office.

3. idiomaticTo give someone the evil eye.

   I saw him giving me the eye as soon as I entered the town square.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, someone, the, eye; for example, to hand someone the eye of a hook and eye.