undress with one's eyes

present singular third person undresses with one's eyes · participle present undressing with one's eyes · participle past undressed with one's eyes · past undressed with one's eyes

1. idiomaticinformalTo gaze at someone lasciviously.

   She felt like he was staring at her as if she were naked. She wondered if he undressed all the girls with his eyes or physically undressed them with his hands.

   2012, Barbara Mitchell, chapter 5, in Green Nanny at Your Service, Xlibris Corporation, page 16

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   After about two drinks I was a very unbothered bitch, so when he stepped out looking like a bag of money, I couldn’t help but undress him with my eyes. I couldn’t lie. Homeboy was looking mighty good, but I turned my attention back to the TV.

   2015, Ms. Neicy, chapter 9, in So this is love?, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, page 92

   “I told you guys,” Mia said. “That’s not it.” She turned to Galen, trying to undress him with her eyes — something I was too embarrassed to do. “Nope,” she said. “I say it’s the underwear one.”

   2016, Brent Hartinger, chapter 5, in Three Truths and a Lie, Simon Pulse, page 66