death stare
noun [ C ] informal uk/ˈdeθ ˌsteər/ us/ˈdeθ ˌster/
怒视,瞪眼
an angry look that you give someone to show them that you are annoyed or want them to stop doing something
None of them greeted me until I gave them the death stare. 直到我狠狠瞪了他们一眼,他们才跟我打招呼。
She occasionally will shoot him a death stare when he is getting dangerously close to saying too much. 偶尔当他就要透露太多时,她会瞪他一眼。
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- He keeps his elbows on the table (even after I give him the sisterly death stare).
- They are still not happy, and continue to give me death stares whenever I pop round.
- People talking all the time and disturbing their colleagues are the issues most likely to end in death stares over the photocopier.
- The 3 year old had that look on her face, her grandad's favourite "death stare"!