Chapter Long-tailed to Lookers-on of L by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Look Daggers (To). To look very angry, as if to annihilate you. Clytus says to Alexander, “You cannot look me dead.”

“You may look daggers, but use none.”

Look as Big as Bull Beef (To). To look stout and hearty, as if fed on bull beef. Bull beef was formerly recommended for making men strong and muscular.

Look Before You Leap Consider well before you act. “Melius est cavere semper, quam patiri semel. ”

“And look before you ere you leap,
For, as you sow, you're like to reap.”
Butler: Hudibras, canto ii. part ii. 502.

Look for a Needle in a Bottle of Hay (To). (See Bottle .)

Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth “Noli dentes equi inspicere donati. ” Do not examine a gift too critically.

Look One Way and Row Another (To). “Olera spectant, lardum tollunt. ” To aim apparently at one thing, but really to be seeking something quito different.

Look through Blue Glasses or Coloured Spectacles To regard actions in a wrong light; to view things distorted by prejudice.

Lookers-on The man on the dyke always hurls well. The man standing on the mound, and looking at those who are playing at hurling, can see the faults and criticise them. Umpires are lookers-on.