sth is a gleam in sb's eye

sth is a gleam in sb's eye used to say that something is being planned or thought about, but does not yet exist某事物仅仅是某人的一个构想:•In those days, CD-ROMs were still just a gleam in the eye of some young engineer.那个时候，只读光盘还只是一个年轻工程师心中的构想。

• armed with intent to commit certain offences
• draw blood
• kill time
• stream tin
• junkmen
• louisianas
• GVH disease
• manufacturer's agent
• ails
• foodgrains
• carination
• fire-curing
• cough ... up
• cypressed
• cyclic feeding
• ask off
• bumpings
• Volhynia fever
• have an account with
• polymethyl methacrylates
• psychicist
• quintillionth
• air castle
• vigorishes
• neur-
• probationers
• linearly ordered set
• Camerounian
• mercury oxide
• Graeco-Roman
• forespoke或-spake
• tramp on someone's on the toes of someone
• Belorussia
• artificial insemination
• keep a civil tongue
• integrator
• phoeniculidaes
• rock flour
• dodgem
• apostrophising
• restrictive clauses
• monoxides
• casino
• larrups
• well-placed
• Aristides
• Herschbach, Dudley
• stamp tax
• Angl.
• Obad.
• rapacities
• go on a ride
• siliceous ooze
• blacktopping
• JFETs
• eyots
• lard ... with
• peck and booze
• birth canals
• Dirac monopole
• septennially
• motor
• entellus
• the yellow peril
• Karnaugh map
• yukkiest
• empresses
• XML
• chromatophobia
• whitebeams
• acetyl radical
• Congressional district
• aerobic digestion
• flaxens
• single-hearted
• rebroadcaster
• jealous of
• honcho
• retrenchment
• intraspinal
• sclerema
• introns
• Dryden, John
• unblushingness
• semantic field
• transgress
• insanitations
• give someone the baby to hold
• nitro
• Aidin
• pepper caster
• automatic stabilization equipment
• metric ounce
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• mastigophoran
• medical practitioner
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• defectiveness
• geophagous
• damnify