green-eyed monster
Example Sentences
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It doesn’t matter what others are or aren’t doing or getting; envy is a green-eyed monster.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021
It perplexed the author that Rebecca was marketed by her publisher as a love story; she viewed it as very dark, and all of its characters as eaten alive by the green-eyed monster.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2020
Can you really vanquish the green-eyed monster with introspection and communication alone?
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2018
But jealousy, that green-eyed monster, has got Leontes in a stranglehold.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2015
It rolled over in bed when he got home before sunrise: a green-eyed monster lying next to his young, inscrutable wife, but then Zizmo would blink and the monster would disappear.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
