/ · 1894 Brewer’s · L · Look Daggers (To)
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To look very angry, as if to annihilate you. Clytus says to Alexander, “You cannot look me dead.”
“You may look daggers, but use none.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.