Definition
A notional look of anticipation or hope (either for sex or a child) in one's father's eyes at or around the time of one's conception.
In Context
- "Kimberly handed him a whisky and said: "So's that, my boy. Forty-eight-year-old Glenlivet. This was a connoisseur's drop before you were a twinkle in your father's eye.""
- "'Don't you take the piss out of me, sonny. I was doing this job when you were just a drunken twinkle in your father's eye!'"
- "“Thirty years ago you would not even have been a twinkle in your father's eye.”"
Also Said As
- glint in the milkman's eye
- twinkle in one's daddy's eye