roving eye

Noun

Meaning

(idiomatic) Wide-ranging observation of one's surroundings.

(idiomatic) The personal characteristic of taking amorous interest in people other than one's own spouse or regular romantic partner.

Examples

They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property. John Steinbeck

The negligence of Nature wide and wild, Where, undisguised by mimic art, she spreads Unbounded beauty to the roving eye. James Thomson (poet)

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