Idiom
twinkle in one's father's eye
Meaning
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.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He was not even a twinkle in his father's eye back then.”
“The old family house was built long before I was even a twinkle in my father's eye.”
“The ancestral estate had stood for generations, existing in quiet solitude long before any of us were even a twinkle in our father's eye.”
Examples
simple
“He was not even a twinkle in his father's eye back then.”
contextual
“The old family house was built long before I was even a twinkle in my father's eye.”
complex
“The ancestral estate had stood for generations, existing in quiet solitude long before any of us were even a twinkle in our father's eye.”
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