scoate ochii

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Romanian

Etymology

Literally, “gouge one’s eyes out”.

Verb

a scoate ochii (third-person singular present scoate ochii, past participle scos ochii) 3rd conj. (with dative)

  1. (idiomatic, chiefly colloquial) to maliciously remind or criticise someone for his faults or errors
  2. (idiomatic, somewhat less common) to try to impress
  3. (figurative, reciprocal) to fight bitterly
    • 2001, Mihai Andrei, De ce tocmai eu? [Why me?]‎, Bucharest: Tritonic, →ISBN, page 40:
      Sigur, nu ne scoteam ochii când ne întâlneam […]
      Of course, it’s not that we’d gouge each other’s eyes out when we’d meet
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scoate,‎ ochii.

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