look daggers
Give murderous glances
To look daggers at someone is to glare at them with intense hostility or anger—a stare so sharp it could wound: She looked daggers at him across the room when he mentioned her ex.
The phrase captures the violence of an expression without physical threat.
- stareProlonged fixed gaze
- death stareIntensely hostile glare
- glowerStare with displeasure
- stink eyeHostile sideways glance
- scowlAngry facial expression
evil eye · glare · frown · withering · murderous · contempt · gaze · threat · side-eye · resentment · anger · piercing · laser eyes · spite · fury · baleful · hostility · seething