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Ogle, flirt with, as in To her sister's disgust, she was always making eyes at the boys . Although slightly different versions, such as throw the eye at , are much older, this precise locution was first recorded in William Makepeace Thackeray's Henry Esmond (1852): “She used to make eyes at the Duke of Marlborough.” See also give someone the once-over .

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