make eyes

English

Alternative forms

• make the eyes

Verb

make eyes (third-person singular simple present makes eyes, present participle making eyes, simple past and past participle made eyes)

1. (usually with "at") To flirt with (someone) by making obvious glances.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening, page 85:

     She was saucy the next [moment], moving her head up and down, making "eyes" at Robert and making "mouths" at Beaudelet.

   • 1964, Michael Nesmith, “Different Drum”:

     Can't you tell by the way I run / Every time you make eyes at me

   • 2005, Alex Turner, “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”, performed by Arctic Monkeys:

     Stop making the eyes at me / I'll stop making the eyes at you

   • 2024, Gracie Abrams, Audrey Hobert, “That's So True”, in The Secret of Us‎^[1], performed by Gracie Abrams:

     Ooh, bet you're thinking, "She's so cool"
     Kicking back on your couch, making eyes from across the room
     Wait, I think I've been there too

Translations

to flirt by making obvious glances

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拋媚眼 / 抛媚眼 (zh) (pāomèiyǎn)

• Finnish: pitää silmäpeliä
• French: faire les yeux doux (fr)
• German: schöne Augen machen, Augen machen (latter also has another sense, see entry)
• Ido: oglar (io)
• Polish: wgapiać impf, wgapić pf, pożerać wzrokiem impf, pożreć wzrokiem pf
• Romanian: face ochi dulci
• Russian: стро́ить гла́зки (ru) impf (stróitʹ glázki), состро́ить гла́зки pf (sostróitʹ glázki)

See also

• cow eyes
• make mouths at
• make faces