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Gimlet eye

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a squint-eye.
- Wright.

See also: Gimlet



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Let the drug-price gougers try whining and wheedling when the two bills come together -- but let our lawmakers cast a gimlet eye at pharmaceutical-company profits, and demand more sharing of the wealth as health-care reform advances.
I met him on the stairs of the Angus Hotel, Dundee, over 30 years ago when he came to speak at a meeting I'd organised - on Palestine (on which he was even then the authority) and fixing me with a mock gimlet eye he revealed he knew I'd applied for his job - as Assistant Secretary of the STUC.
With a gimlet eye and forensic detachment, he strips away layers of propaganda and myth about the Second World War, and reveals startling and sometimes uncomfortable truths.
 
 
 
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