throw an eye

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throw an eye (third-person singular simple present throws an eye, present participle throwing an eye, simple past threw an eye, past participle thrown an eye)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To glance; peep.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Episode 16

     He threw an odd eye at the same time now and then at Stephen's anything but immaculately attired interlocutor as if he had seen that nobleman somewhere or other though where he was not in a position to truthfully state nor had he the remotest idea when.