To be daydreaming and not paying attention to what is happening around you right now. You are physically present but your mind and thoughts are somewhere else. This idiom is often used when the other person is not paying attention.
have egg on your face. to be very embarrassed because of something you said or did: He told everyone the deal was happening, and if it falls through now he'll have egg on his face.
only have eyes for sb. to be interested in or attracted to only one person: You've no need to be jealous. I only have eyes for you.
Anything fishy smells, tastes, or resembles a fish in some way. Suspicious people and situations are also called fishy. Since this word has two meanings, context is key. If you say something is fishy, it probably means you think something is suspicious.
In other words, as people who live in a 360-dimensional world, our spatial awareness extends beyond that of what we can see in front of us. That's why mothers are often aware when they're kids are misbehaving even if they have their backs turned, making it seem as though they have "eyes in the back of their heads."
The iris has pigmentation that determines the eye color. Irises are classified as being one of six colors: amber, blue, brown, gray, green, hazel, or red. Often confused with hazel eyes, amber eyes tend to be a solid golden or copper color without flecks of blue or green typical of hazel eyes.
to move your eyes around in a circle because someone has said or done something stupid or strange: "Don't pay any attention to what he says," Carrie said rolling her eyes. (Definition of roll your eyes from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Not all popped eyeballs come from head trauma. A few people can luxate their globes on purpose, and certain others get “spontaneous globe luxation” when their eyelids are pushed in the right way. Someone with shallow eye sockets or floppy eyelid syndrome, for example, might pop his eyeballs during a regular eye exam.
Push down and lift. Now, with your middle finger, gently push down into your eye and lift up. The lifting motion should lift your lower eyelid up with your finger while gently pushing your eyeball back. Your upper eyelid should flip inside-out during this motion.
But the basic technique is this one:
- Close your eyes.
- With your eyes closed, try to look at the ceiling.
- Open your eye lids while still fixing the ceiling with your eyes. People will only see the white of your eyeball.
- Practise until you can do it without closing your eyes first.
As with sitting too close to the television, reading in dim light can cause eye fatigue, but it is not harmful and cannot damage your vision. This myth has made many people wealthy, but rolling your eyes around has no effect on your vision. Myth #4: “You can wear your eyes out by using them too much.”
Rolling eyes is a sarcastic, nonverbal gesture, but it never clearly states the person's disagreement and, therefore, the partner doesn't know how to respond. Eye Rollers mean this when they roll: They disagree with who is talking. They don't respect the person talking.
Focus both your eyes on the tip of your nose.
Slowly lower your gaze until both of your eyes are focused on the tip of your nose. This may cause a bit of an eye strain, since you're probably not used to using your eye muscles this way. Though you won't be able to see it yourself, your eyes should now be crossed.To know something like the back of your hand means that you know that person or that thing very, very well. For example, you could say, “I know Hong Kong like the back of my hand.” That would mean, I know Hong Kong very, very well and I won't get lost.
The colloquial phrase 'long time no see', which first appeared in the USA in the 1890s, is used as a greeting meaning 'it is a long time since we last saw each other'. It originated in Chinese Pidgin English, after Chinese 'hǎojiǔ bú jiàn', or 'hǎojĭu méi jiàn'.
on the back of. phrase. If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
When something or someone is on your mind, it means that you think and worry about this thing or person a lot. When you have something or someone in your mind, you just think of this thing or person without the worrying connotation.
If something is at the forefront of people's minds or attention, they think about it a lot because it is particularly important to them. Senior citizen issues were always at the forefront of his mind.
In the US, at least, when someone says something is “on my mind” they mean they have been thinking about it a lot and probably want to say something about it. If it is something serious that they have been worrying about, they might say it is “weighing on my mind” as though their mind was carrying a burden.
Senior Member. "What do you have in mind?" is the usual way of asking what people are thinking of doing, or what would they prefer to do, as in your first example.
be on the tip of your tongue. If something that you want to say is on the tip of your tongue, you think you know it and that you will be able to remember it very soon: Her name is on the tip of my tongue.
