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gimlet

noun as in auger

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His Joel had a gimlet eye and wore his heart on his sleeve; he was sometimes goofy but always in on the joke.

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That is, until the gin gimlets started to flow at sundown.

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No detail is too small for Caro’s gimlet eye, which is currently trained on finishing Volume 5.

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With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.

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Watching it all with a gimlet eye, Mary — his old friend who’s still helplessly in love with him — takes Frank to task for sacrificing his theatrical partnership with Charley for hollow Hollywood success.

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