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red eye

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a red eye (American, informal)
a flight that leaves late at night and arrives early the next morning. We took the red eye from Seattle to New York.
See also: eye, red

red eye (American, very informal)

cheap whiskey (= strong alcoholic drink). The man was leaning against the wall, swigging from a bottle of red eye.
See also: eye, red

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It got thicker and thicker, till it seemed as if it became concentrated into a sort of pillar of cloud in the room, through the top of which I could see the light of the gas shining like a red eye.
That of the serf, or bondsman, was sad and sullen; his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, had not the fire which occasionally sparkled in his red eye manifested that there slumbered, under the appearance of sullen despondency, a sense of oppression, and a disposition to resistance.
At last, in my despair, I saw a little door in the roof, and on poking it open, a red eye appeared, and a beery voice said.
 
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