twinkle in one's father's eye

Meaning: (idiomatic,colloquial,humorous)A notionallookofanticipationorhope(either forsexor achild) in one's father's eyes at or around the time of one'sconception.1975, Terry Blake,The Fig Tree, Aim Publishing (1975),page 26:Kimberly handed him a whisky and said: "So's that, my boy. Forty-eight-year-old Glenlivet. This was a connoisseur's drop before you were atwinkle in your father's eye."1992, Martina Cole,Dangerous Lady‎[1], Headline Publishing, published2008,→ISBN:'Don't you take the piss out of me, sonny. I was doing this job when you were just a drunkentwinkle in your father's eye!'2010, Max Overton, Jim Darley,Sequestered‎[2], Sequestered Books,→ISBN:“Thirty years ago you would not even have been atwinkle in your father's eye.”For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:twinkle in one's father's eye.

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