Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Though if done intentionally, in a particular way (such as once slowly or a few times in a row quickly), while giving a sweet or suggestive look with the eyes, often with the head tilted or at an angle in combination with the shoulders, is known as to "bat an eyelash", "bat/batting eyelashes", or "flutter/fluttering eyelashes".
The phrase "an eye for an eye makes the (whole) world blind" and other similar phrases has been conveyed by, but not limited to George Perry Graham (1914) on capital punishment debate argument, [38] Louis Fischer (1951) describing philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, [39] and Martin Luther King Jr. (1958) in the context of racial violence. [40]
Visual acuity with eye chart at Near 15.7 inches (400 mm) and without (sc: Latin sine correctore) correctors (spectacles); Ncc is with (cc: Latin cum correctore) correctors. See Visual_acuity#Legal_definitions: VA OS Left visual acuity VA OD Right visual acuity VDU Visual display unit VF Visual field VPS Variable prism stereoscope WD
Turning a blind eye is an idiom describing the ignoring of undesirable information. The Oxford English Dictionary records usage of the phrase in 1698. [1] The phrase to turn a blind eye is often associated with Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched; Do not cross the bridge till you come to it; Do not cut off your nose to spite your face; Do not dish it if you can't take it; Do not judge a book by its cover; Do not keep a dog and bark yourself; Do not let the bastards grind you down; Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet
Sarzo had a bat’s-eye view of the career-launching incident, as the bat landed right at his feet, and Sarzo was the band member who pointed it out to Ozzy.
"Casey at the Bat" as it first appeared, June 3, 1888 " Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 " is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer . It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner ) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based on Thayer's ...
Home plate umpire Nate Tomlinson avoided major injury after a piece of a broken bat flew through a slit in his mask at Tuesday's Dodgers-Angels game. 'That was really scary': Umpire hit in face ...