undress with one's eyes

English

Verb

undress with one's eyes (third-person singular simple present undresses with one's eyes, present participle undressing with one's eyes, simple past and past participle undressed with one's eyes)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To gaze at someone lasciviously.
    • 2012, Barbara Mitchell, chapter 5, in Green Nanny at Your Service, Xlibris Corporation, page 16:
      She felt like he was staring at her as if she were naked. She wondered if he undressed all the girls with his eyes or physically undressed them with his hands.
    • 2015, Ms. Neicy, chapter 9, in So this is love?, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, page 92:
      After about two drinks I was a very unbothered bitch, so when he stepped out looking like a bag of money, I couldn’t help but undress him with my eyes. I couldn’t lie. Homeboy was looking mighty good, but I turned my attention back to the TV.
    • 2016, Brent Hartinger, chapter 5, in Three Truths and a Lie, Simon Pulse, page 66:
      “I told you guys,” Mia said. “That’s not it.” She turned to Galen, trying to undress him with her eyes — something I was too embarrassed to do. “Nope,” she said. “I say it’s the under¬ wear one.”

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