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furtive glance

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furtive glance
a secret or quick glance, quickly averted. He made a furtive glance in the direction of the closet when the robbers asked where the jewelery was hidden.
See also: glance


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In place of her daughter's first cries and beaming smiles from hospital staff, Darlene was met with furtive glances and muttered conversations.
Instead, we mumble politely and send furtive glances towards our hire car, which has disgraced itself with two dodgy tyres that Chris, the mechanic with unAmerican teeth and a 55year-old's complexion belying his 24 years, has declared unroadworthy.
Tourists may take a furtive glance from locked windows, straining to catch a glimpse of the Pope himself, at ease in his own garden.
 
 
 
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