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Noun
twinkle in one's father's eye (plural twinkles in their fathers' eyes)
- (idiomatic, colloquial, humorous) A notional look of anticipation or hope (either for sex or a child) in one's father's eyes at or around the time of one's conception.
- 1975, Terry Blake, The Fig Tree, Aim Publishing (1975), page 26:
- Kimberly handed him a whisky and said: "So's that, my boy. Forty-eight-year-old Glenlivet. This was a connoisseur's drop before you were a twinkle in your father's eye."
1992, Martina Cole, Dangerous Lady, Headline Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN:'Don't you take the piss out of me, sonny. I was doing this job when you were just a drunken twinkle in your father's eye!'
2010, Max Overton, Jim Darley, Sequestered, Sequestered Books, →ISBN:“Thirty years ago you would not even have been a twinkle in your father's eye.”
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Usage notes
Used to refer to a person when discussing things which existed at or before the time that person was conceived.
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