wink
/ˈwɪŋk/ nom B2En français : clin d'œil
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- A brief time; an instant.
- The smallest possible amount.
- A subtle allusion. · The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.
Pluriel winks
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
Why, I haven’t had a wink of sleep these three weeks!”
“She’d be so excited that she wouldn’t sleep a wink.
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