look someone up and down

look someone up and down
look someone up and down phrase
to look carefully at someone from their head to their feet as if you are trying to make a judgment about them

The guard looked us up and down and then let us in.

Thesaurus: to look at someone in a particular wayhyponym general words meaning to look or not looksynonym
Main entry: look

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scrutinize someone carefully

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

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  • look someone up and down — to look carefully at someone from their head to their feet as if you are trying to make a judgment about them The guard looked us up and down and then let us in …   English dictionary

  • look someone over — look (someone) over to examine someone very carefully. She looked him over, noticing his bruised face and dirty jacket. The old man remained silent for a moment while he continued to look John up and down …   New idioms dictionary

  • look — look1 [ luk ] verb *** ▸ 1 direct eyes at someone/something ▸ 2 search for someone/something ▸ 3 have an appearance ▸ 4 seem ▸ 5 for saying how likely ▸ 6 making someone pay attention ▸ 7 face a direction ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) intransitive to direct… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • look */*/*/ — I UK [lʊk] / US verb Word forms look : present tense I/you/we/they look he/she/it looks present participle looking past tense looked past participle looked 1) [intransitive] to direct your eyes towards someone or something so that you can see… …   English dictionary

  • look over — look (someone) over to examine someone very carefully. She looked him over, noticing his bruised face and dirty jacket. The old man remained silent for a moment while he continued to look John up and down …   New idioms dictionary

  • look — look1 W1S1 [luk] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(see)¦ 2¦(search)¦ 3¦(seem)¦ 4¦(appearance)¦ 5 look daggers at somebody 6 look somebody up and down 7 look somebody in the eye 8 look down your nose at somebody/something 9 look the other way …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • look — 1 /lUk/ verb 1 SEE (I) to turn your eyes towards something, so that you can see it: Sorry, I didn t see I wasn t looking. | If you look carefully you can see that the painting represents a naked man. (+ at): It s time we left, Ian said, looking… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • look — [look] vi. [ME loken < OE locian, akin to OS lōkōn, OHG luogēn (Ger dial. lugen), to spy after, look for] 1. to make use of the sense of sight; see 2. a) to direct one s eyes in order to see b) to direct one s attention mentally upon something …   English World dictionary

  • look — I [[t]l ʊk[/t]] USING YOUR EYES OR YOUR MIND ♦ looks, looking, looked (Please look at category 19 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) VERB If you look in a particular direction, you direct your eyes… …   English dictionary

  • down — I [[t]da͟ʊn[/t]] PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES ♦ (Down is often used with verbs of movement, such as fall and pull , and also in phrasal verbs such as bring down and calm down .) 1) PREP To go down something such as a slope or a pipe means to go… …   English dictionary

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