"give a second glance" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to suggest that someone take a closer look or consider something more carefully. For example: "I urge you to give the proposal a second glance and consider the long-term benefits it will bring."
Photographs of women to whom they would not normally give a second glance suddenly become attractive.
Maxwell Sim is, Coe says, "somebody who you wouldn't give a second glance to".
"The character I played, Cynthia, is the sort of woman you might not give a second glance to," says Brenda Blethyn, when told of the film's third place.
In the new world immigrants connect with people they wouldn't give a second glance to in the old country.
However, I couldn't be bothered to give a second glance to an older man (that would have been a man in his mid 30s or early 40s) or return a smile with sincerity for that matter.
It will help you grow and you might find a friend in a person you could never have thought to give a second glance to.
The neoliberal Anglo-Saxon blueprint is in shreds, you say, and the French model, with its heavier regulation and higher taxes, is being given a second glance.
Most party conferences are surrounded by a ring of steel, with everyone being forced to go through airport-style security before they are admitted, but here you can wheel in suitcases without anyone giving a second glance.
A journalist and copy editor who spent more than a decade working for mainstream women's magazines, such as _Glamour _and Marie Claire, Whitefield-Madrano warns us that "beauty invites gaps in our thinking," bound as it is to concepts and customs rarely given a second glance, and she wants us to pause and reëxamine our learned responses to inherited beliefs.
To capture "the buildings we would pass without even giving a second glance," Stewart searches cities both on Google Maps and at the street-level.
Officially described as a survey of "the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture," Morbid Anatomy is really just a creative laboratory where curious scientists, artists, writers and weirdos get together to explore the underworld of scholarship that no one else gives a second glance.
