"out of the corner of one's eye" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=out of the corner of one's eye}} out of the corner of one's eye, {{en-PP|head=out of the corner of one's eye}} out of the corner of one's eye
  1. (of a look or glance) Sideways, obliquely, askance Categories (topical): Eye Synonyms: askance Translations (look sideways): de reüll (Catalan), d'esquitllèbit (Catalan), vanuit zijn ooghoek (Dutch), syrjäsilmällä (Finnish), du coin de l’œil (French), de esguello (Galician), de reollo (Galician), sjá eitthvað út undan sér (Icelandic), con la coda dell'occhio (Italian), d'la carre d'san yi (Norman), kątem oka (Polish), de canto de olho (Portuguese), de rabo de olho (Portuguese), cu coada ochiului (Romanian), krajičkom oka (Serbo-Croatian), de reojo (Spanish), de refilón (Spanish), de través (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-out_of_the_corner_of_one's_eye-en-prep_phrase-973LEnM~ Disambiguation of Eye: 97 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 94 6 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 95 5 Disambiguation of 'look sideways': 99 1
  2. (of a look or glance) With suspicion. Translations (look with suspicion): de reüll (Catalan), syrjäsilmällä (Finnish), de esguello (Galician), de reollo (Galician), de reojo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-out_of_the_corner_of_one's_eye-en-prep_phrase-CxV~cflt Disambiguation of 'look with suspicion': 6 94

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