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twinkle in one's father's eye en · NOUN
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(colloquial, humorous, idiomatic) 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.
“Thirty years ago you would not even have been a twinkle in your father's eye.”
2010, Max Overton, Jim Darley, Sequestered, Sequestered Books, →ISBN:'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!'
1992, Martina Cole, Dangerous Lady, Headline Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN: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."
1975, Terry Blake, The Fig Tree, Aim Publishing (1975), page 26
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glint in the milkman's eye · twinkle in one's daddy's eye