roving eye | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Wide-rangingobservationof one's surroundings.1840April –1841November,Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Nineteenth”, inThe Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale.[…], volume I, London:Chapman and Hall,[…], published1841,→OCLC:Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as hisroving eyedetected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences.1916,Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 9, inThe Hunters of the Hills:Hisroving eyetraveled around the room, and, resting upon the three guests, became inflamed.2009July 12,William Grimes, “Paul Hemphill, Chronicler of the South, Dies at 73”, inNew York Times, retrieved21 March 2018:Like Jimmy Breslin, a writer he was often compared to, he turned hisroving eyeto ordinary Southerners overlooked by most writers and mined the inexhaustible vein of human experience.; (idiomatic)The personal characteristic of takingamorousinterestin people other than one's ownspouseor regularromanticpartner.1858,Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 4, inBulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry:This dame she was new-fangledAnd of aroving eye. . . ."Beshrew me," quoth King Arthur,"I think thou be'st not true!"1909,Dante Alighieri, translated byHenry Wadsworth Longfellow,Purgatorio, Canto 32:But because she her wanton,roving eyeTurned upon me, her angry paramourDid scourge her from her head unto her feet.2001April 21, Ellin Martens, “People: Beauty and the Bombshells”, inTime, retrieved21 March 2018:Miss Israel . . . plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. . . . The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from theroving eyeof pageant director Donald Trump.

Examples:

EN: She's a dark and roving eye
ES: Ella tiene ojos oscuros...
EN: You know, Ma, it looks like Pa had... sort of a roving eye for the ladies.
ES: ¿Sabes, mamá? Parece que papá era muy mujeriego.
EN: You've got a roving eye, Kit. That's something new.
ES: De modo que ahora te interesan las damas.
EN: Oh darling, you had a roving eye.
ES: Cariño, tú no eres de fiar.
EN: I was under the prairie moon, whistling a lonesome tune when my roving eye came to sight her
ES: Bajo la luz de la luna en la pradera, silbando una melodía solitaria, ahí estaba yo, cuando mis ojos la vieron.
EN: Seth Lord has a roving eye. And foot.
ES: Seth Lord tiene ojos y pies inquietos.
EN: Fang, do you forget? The last time you had a roving eye, I kept it in a jar for a week!
ES: ¿Olvidas que la última vez en la que se te fueron los ojos los guardé en un frasco durante una semana?
EN: The youth who winked a roving eye Or breathed a non-connubial sigh
ES: Los jóvenes que...
EN: I was starting to get a roving eye again, you know?
ES: Estaba empezando a fijarme en otras mujeres, ¿entiendes?
EN: As for that little woman with her roving eye...
ES: La verdad es que esa jovencita está de muy buen ver.
EN: - I had no idea you had such a roving eye.
ES: - No tenía idea de que tuvieras un ojo tan errante.
EN: - I don't have a roving eye.
ES: - No tengo buen ojo.
EN: You have a bold and roving eye...
ES: Eres muy mujeriego...
EN: You don't think Maxwell Sheffield has a roving eye?
ES: Como si él no tuviera ojos escrutadores.
EN: "'The youth who winked a roving eye
ES: "La juventud que guiñaba a una mirada errante"

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