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词汇 evil-eye
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the evil eye


idiom
a look that someone gives other people that is believed to have the power to injure or harm them(能伤人的)恶毒眼光
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Examples from literature

God pity me, the evil eye is on her, said an Arab. 
No, you needn't point your middle finger at me so, to ward off the evil eye. 
Nothing could satisfy him but that they were bewitched, and he was resolved to find out the person who had cast the evil eye on his oxen. 
That girl has the evil eye. 

Examples of the evil eye


the evil eye
A mystical orientation was often represented, for example, in the form of the "evileye" as the cause of the disease.
A general factor present in all explanations was that the person with the evileye was usually unaware and caused harm unintentionally.
Something to remember: the evileye is an excellent proof of the contention that envy and hostility always lurk behind love.
A further example of good versus evil is represented by the 'evileye', a curse or evil power causing illness.
We are now going to bring back the old days of the evileye.
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To a chauffeur that was the worst disaster that could happen and by giving the child that name he hoped for ever to avert the evileye.
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If they did not get the evileye, patients who told their doctors that they had been to a chiropractor or osteopath would certainly receive a ticking off.
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It was known as a witch-brooch by people using it to save children from the evileye.
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This verse presents the opposite stating that an evileye plunges one into darkness.
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The evileye was both an expression for jealousy and for stinginess.
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Such healing was often in the form of removing the malocchio, or evileye, which had cursed someone.
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Unlike most witchcraft, where the perpetrator is known by and often close to the victim, the evileye is usually attributed to strangers.
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A parent will often place an eye pendant on their baby to prevent an evileye being cast upon it.
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This wording links this verse to the idea of the evileye, which was often termed the ungenerous eye.
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Bad ones are classed as the evileye, fright and bad air among others.
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