LOOK-2.html - {n.}, {informal} A chance or hope. - Usually used with a negative. * /It wasn't much of a look-in, but it was the only chance they let him have./ * /Charlie didn't realize it, but he never had a look-in with Bonnie./

LOOK-2.html - See: DIRTY LOOK.

LOOK-2.html - To complain if a gift is not perfect. - A proverb. Usually used with a negative. * /John gave Joe a baseball but Joe complained that the ball was old. His father told him not to look a gift horse in the mouth./

LOOK-2.html - {v.} Act lively; be quick; wake up and work; be busy; hurry. - Often used as a command. * /"Look alive there," the boss called./

LOOK-2.html - See: BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT IN ONE'S MOUTH.

LOOK-2.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To look very clean and fresh; look as if you had just had a bath and put on all-new clothing. * /In spite of the long, hot train ride, Jody arrived looking as if she had come out of a bandbox./ * /After a day at the rodeo we were all dusty and tired except for Hope, who looked as if she'd come out of a bandbox./