old-fashioned look
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Noun
[edit]old-fashioned look (plural old-fashioned looks)
- (idiomatic) A glance of disdain or disapproval.
- 2001, Dornford Yates, B-Berry and I Look Back, page 141:
- He produced his Agreement and, as he put it in – that is to say, tendered it as evidence – he gave me an old-fashioned look; and that, of course, told me that the rotten thing wasn't stamped.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old-fashioned, look.
- The sepia photographs had an old-fashioned look.