Meaning of eyelash-curler | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“In Your Face⟳: There is nothing coy about Dave Quick’s motorized assemblages at Ovsey Gallery. With the push⟳ of a button or the turn⟳ of a handle⟳, they come⟳ at you. Toy Christmas trees rattle and quake. Eyelash-curlers snap⟳ their metallic jaws.”

“Peter Sendall, from Newcastle, says that he and his family have⟳ far more appliances even than the 47 listed in the report⟳, including electric eyelash-curlers for his two daughters.”

“Asked whether she [Arianna Huffington] had any remaining professional fears, Huffington responded, “I am afraid of curling my eyelashes. You know⟳, of that thing you put⟳ on your eyelashes to curl them. I am afraid it will blind me.” […] Eyelash-curlers aside, her remaining professional fear ought to be this: Can an intellectual butterfly settle⟳ down long enough to make⟳ a substantive difference?”

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