œil

n. m.

1. Avoir quelqu'un a l'œil: To keep a close eye on someone. Je veux que vous m'ayez ce lascar à l'œil! Don't let that bugger out of your sight!

2. Avoir quelqu'un dans l'œil (Racing and cycling slang): To see a fellow competitor forge ahead.

3. L'avoir dans l'œil (fig.): To have been 'conned', 'diddled', to have been duped.

4. Risquer un œil: To 'take a peep', to glance furtively at something.

5. Se rincer l'œil: To 'feast one's eyes', to get a salacious eyeful.

6. Pisser de l'œil (often of woman): To 'have the weepies', to 'turn on the waterworks', to cry.

7. Ne dormir que d'un œil: To take a wary 'forty winks', to drift into a state of superficial sleep because danger is lurking.

8. Ouvrir l'œil et le bon: To 'keep one's weather eye open', to keep a sharp lookout.

9. Monter un œil à quelqu'un: To 'give someone a shiner', a black eye.

10. Avoir un œil qui dit merde à l'autre (joc.): To have a pronounced squint (also: avoir les yeux qui se croisent les bras).

11. Tourner de l'œil: To 'pass out', to faint.

12. Etre frais comme l'œil (of person): To be (and look) as fresh as a daisy.

13. Obéir au doigt et à l'œil'. To be hyperobedient (literally to jump to attention at the quiver of an eyebrow).

14. Faire un œil de crapaud mort d'amour. To look 'spoony', to have a lovesick expression on one's face.

15. Taper dans l'œil à quelqu'un:

  a To make a deep impression on someone.

  b To 'click' with someone, to take someone's fancy.

16. S'en battre l'œil: 'Not to care a rap about something', to be totally unconcerned.

17. Mon œil! You must be joking! (This ironical interjection is usually accompanied by the pulling down with the index finger of the lower eyelid. This 'bodyspeak' gesture emphasizes the 'I'm not as gullible as you think' quality of the remark.)

18. L'œil du bidet (pol): 'Dick', private eye. (This pejorative appellation for a private detective reflects explicitly the snooping that constitutes a fair proportion of his business.)

19. L'œil de bronze: The anus, the anal sphincter (where sodomous intercourse is concerned).