"sheep's eye" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From genitive of sheep + eye.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1864, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 250",
          "text": "those of an amorous roguish look derive their title even from the sheep, and we say such a one has a sheep's eye, not so much to denote the innocence as the simple slyness of the cast.",
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          "ref": "1875, Anthony Trollope, Never, never, -- Never, never: A Condensed Novel in Three Parts, after the Manner of Bret Harte",
          "text": "He had ever a sheep's eye for thee, and, if I remember rightly, thou wast sweet upon him once.",
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          "ref": "2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 400",
          "text": "No less an eminence than former President Taft himself (who had long cast a sheep's eye on the high court) privately called the nomination “one of the deepest wounds that I have ever had as an American and a lover of the Constitution and a believer in progressive conservatism.”",
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        "A secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance."
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          "pining",
          "pining"
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          "look",
          "look"
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          "humble",
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          "doting",
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        {
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cow eyes"
        }
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
          "word": "kaihoisa katse"
        },
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "occhi vitulini"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vljubljónnyj vzor",
          "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "влюблённый взор"
        },
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "гла́зки m or pl (glázki) (a flirting look, lit.: \"little eyes\")",
          "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance"
        }
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  "word": "sheep's eye"
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  "etymology_text": "From genitive of sheep + eye.",
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          "ref": "1864, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 250",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1875, Anthony Trollope, Never, never, -- Never, never: A Condensed Novel in Three Parts, after the Manner of Bret Harte",
          "text": "He had ever a sheep's eye for thee, and, if I remember rightly, thou wast sweet upon him once.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 400",
          "text": "No less an eminence than former President Taft himself (who had long cast a sheep's eye on the high court) privately called the nomination “one of the deepest wounds that I have ever had as an American and a lover of the Constitution and a believer in progressive conservatism.”",
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      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
      "word": "kaihoisa katse"
    },
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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      "word": "occhi vitulini"
    },
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      "roman": "vljubljónnyj vzor",
      "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
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      "word": "влюблённый взор"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "гла́зки m or pl (glázki) (a flirting look, lit.: \"little eyes\")",
      "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance"
    }
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  "word": "sheep's eye"
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