"eyebrow" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the thin line of hair above the eye. For example, "She tweezed her eyebrows to create a perfect arch."
Many parents would look at this fact with a wry sideways glance and an eyebrow raised, but I have held onto it for dear life.
Clooney delivers his most nuanced comic performance to date, at last restraining the eyebrow waggles he used to adopt to signal he was being funny.
The Pakistani in Boston, says Amis, could call himself American, while the Pakistani in Preston couldn't call himself English (without raising an eyebrow): "There's meant to be another layer of being English.
If you can afford it, a good Swiss-made watch is a handsome thing to own – watches being, for most men, the only way to ornament themselves these days, eyebrow rings being so passé.
Even Jack Straw's extraordinary bluster against Barack Obama's "indecisiveness" (thank God for his "decisiveness" back in 2003) hardly raises more than an eyebrow.
Get the look This year's must-have treatments are eyelash tinting, eyelash extensions and eyebrow threading.
In 2008, despite a lofty $50 buy-in, Martin Madness ballooned to 958 entries – bringing the total pot to an eyebrow-raising $48,800.
A National Academy of Sciences panel is studying how to modernize crime statistics, new cooperation has been detected between FBI statisticians and BJS statisticians – and then there was that eyebrow-raising speech at Georgetown by Comey, the FBI director.
With a quirky sense of humour, memorable villains (Toecutter; Lord Humungus; Aunty Entity), eyebrow-raising S&M fashion and supercharged vehicles, the trilogy said a lot about the potential of mainstream Australian cinema to work under a new aesthetic and sensibility.
We shall include the most eyebrow-raising in our future coverage.
This is an eyebrow-raising departure from the club's long-practised policy of financial prudence and a measure of the directors' own desperation to sign a player who could make a telling difference.
