Meaning of twinkle in one's father's eye | Babel Free

Definitions

A notional look of anticipation or hope (either for sex or a child) in one's father's eyes at or around the time of one's conception.

colloquial, humorous, idiomatic

Examples

“Kimberly handed him a whisky and said: "So's that, my boy. Forty-eight-year-old Glenlivet. This was a connoisseur's drop before you were a twinkle in your father's eye."”

“'Don't you take the piss out of me, sonny. I was doing this job when you were just a drunken twinkle in your father's eye!'”

““Thirty years ago you would not even have been a twinkle in your father's eye.””

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