a jaundiced eye

a jaundiced eye
предвзятый, предубеждённый взгляд (обыкн. to see или to view with a jaundiced eye)

She views the world with the jaundiced eyes of a woman who subconsciously realizes she has missed something, which means in point of fact that she has missed everything. (N. Coward, ‘Easy Virtue’, act I) — Миссис Уиттейкер ко всему подходит с предубежденностью женщины, сознающей, что она кое-что потеряла в жизни, а это, в сущности, означает, что она потеряла все.

He went doggedly across the fields with his terrier, and looked at everything with a jaundiced eye. (D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Rainbow’, ch. I) — Он упорно шагал по полям со своей собакой и окидывал все попадавшееся на пути желчным взглядом.

...the Duke and Canning were no longer seeing eye to eye, or at any rate were seeing each other with jaundiced eyes. (R. Aldington, ‘The Duke’, ch. XXIII) — ...герцог Веллингтон и Кэннинг уже больше не сходились во взглядах. Сходство между ними заключалось лишь во взаимном предубеждении.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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