bedroom eyes n.
a look in the eyes that invites the person on whom it is focused towards seduction.
More Gal’s Gossip 42: Fannie was so mortified that great salt tears of indignation stood in her ‘big, brown, bedroom eyes’ — as Byron says. | ||
Aussie (France) 13 Apr. 4/1: Met a bonzer bint, with bed-room eyes, a figure like you see in shop windows; and as shy as a brumby. She told me all her history. | ||
Spanish Blood (1946) 175: A redheaded number with bedroom eyes. | ‘Trouble Is My Business’ in||
Man with the Golden Arm 82: It’s from flirtin’ [...] Me ’n my bedroom eyes. | ||
Imabelle 96: [She] looked him straight in the eyes with her own glassy, speckled bedroom eyes. | ||
(con. 1950s) Age of Rock 2 (1970) 102: But mostly the eternal search for a little quiff, quim, [...] etc. Bedroom eyes. Hot lips. | ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen||
Airtight Willie and Me 35: It’s gonna take more than [...] your bedroom eyes to make that ’ho give you that lick. | ||
Another Day in Paradise 36: Got those bedroom blue eyes . . . you’re happening, Bobbie. | ||
Flirting Bible 57: Bedroom eyes are irresistible and appealing any time of the day. | ||
Price You Pay 42: I have brown bedroom eyes that are swollen half shut. |