look daggers

For myself, having acquired only polite French, I can but "look daggers" when I am abused.

But the flock never stopped—on it went, and all that the goody and the man did was to look daggers at the smith for making game of them.

"Why should it not be discussed?" cried Roland, looking—if people can look daggers—a perfect arsenal of rage and scorn at his cousin.

It is no wonder then that she looked worn out, or that the baby, who had been so jolly and happy as to be voted a remarkably fine child by all the passengers, should have sunk into an exhausted sleep, after a prolonged fit of screaming and crying, that caused the few remaining inmates of the car to look daggers at it, and say many unkind things, some of which even reached the ears of the mother.

She could only look daggers at him, with occasionally an expression of staring wonder at a nonchalance that disproved twenty years of authority.