eyes out on stalks

eyes out on stalks used to emphasize the extreme degree of someone's eager curiosity 极度好奇： when I read about his arrest my eyes popped out on stalks. 当我从报纸上看到他被捕的消息时, 我简直傻了眼。

• unconscious
• at one's command
• free-standing insert
• honeybees
• aneurysmectomy
• diametrally
• flying test bed
• scratch team
• skeptically
• south plattes
• uredosori
• ice-cream chair
• shrug sth off/aside
• eye
• aggrandizers
• tither
• follow after
• metalaw
• despoticalness
• African Horse Sicknesses
• Niagara Falls
• Bokhara
• swear off
• Dexedrine
• suffragettism
• have （或keep） one's （或both） feet on the ground
• sick day
• absorptivities
• ringletted
• leaf metal
• regalements
• heterocotyli
• latter-day
• fo.s
• words fail someone
• semiclassics
• taper pin
• hash out
• realizes
• make bricks without straw
• be sour on
• pink-eye
• crummier
• continuing educations
• tunicatas
• clubby
• accidental migration
• Jew's harps
• fractionalized
• hashing
• bangingest
• dimerizer
• saturated fatty acid
• omnivorousness
• bioinstrumentation
• schematically
• fait accomple
• be invalided out also be invalided home
• unionisms
• movable bridge
• a centre of excellence
• adrenokinetic
• put upon
• dimethyltryptamine
• octodecimo
• at news of
• acephalogastria
• revoltive
• dyest
• tea-tables
• beckoner
• out of mothballs
• grinding aid
• extension joints
• galls
• Neanderthalic
• urban geography
• agglomeratic
• Chiangmai
• celibatarian
• isbas
• take sth in
• pomander
• motorboat
• homoerotics
• square-built
• insalivate
• ataraxy
• misbelieves
• finished steel
• sisterhood
• manicurist
• cooperage
• nullarbor plains
• cold player
• in some ways
• Reichstag
• exuberancy
• arkansass
• gape at