Raise (a few) Eyebrows
idiom
To cause surprise or shock
Jemma’s miniskirt raised a few eyebrows at the board meeting.
Cambridge Dictionary
Raise an eyebrow to raise your eyebrows
If something causes you to raise an eyebrow or to raise your eyebrows, it causes you to feel surprised or disapproving.
An intriguing item on the news pages caused me to raise an eyebrow over my morning coffee.
He raised his eyebrows over some of the suggestions.
He was looking at her with his eyebrows raised questioningly.
Collins Cobuilt
The Britannica Dictionary Ask the Editor
Question
What does it mean to “raise eyebrows”? — Sammy, Ghana
Answer
To raise eyebrows means to cause other people to react with surprise or mild disapproval. To raise an/your eyebrow means to move your eyebrows up in a way that shows surprise or mild disapproval.
Both of these phrases are often used figuratively.
The following example sentences show how each phrased is used.
To raise eyebrows
Her sudden outburst in class raised eyebrows. [=classmates reacted with surprise or mild disapproval to her outburst]
He raised eyebrows when he walked down the street in a winter coat during summer. [=people were surprised to see him in clothing that was not appropriate for the weather]
The band’s new album is raising eyebrows [=causing people to act with surprise or disapproval] with its shocking lyrics.
The scandal raised eyebrows [=caused surprise and/or disapproval] all over town.
To raise an/your eyebrow
He raised an eyebrow at his mother when she bought a sports car. [=he was surprised that his mother bought a sports car]
The townspeople raised their eyebrows at the new strict laws. [=they felt disapproval towards the new laws]
No one raised an eyebrow [=no one was surprised] when he quit his job; he never liked it anyway.
Her brother raised an eyebrow [=he expressed surprise and/or disapproval] when she told him she was moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Raise your eyebrows
To move your eyebrows upwards in order to show surprise or disapproval
‘Really?’ she said, raising her eyebrows.
This decision caused a few raised eyebrows (=surprised some people).
→ eyebrow
Examples from the Corpus
raise your eyebrows
• She did not speak when he raised his eyebrows the second time, so in went onions, mustard and ketchup.
• He raised his eyebrows but he didn’t actually skewer my hand to his desk with his favourite kris.
• While he was pouring the drinks Ron the landlord raised his eyebrows at me.
• Your facial expressions can help to emphasize parts of your speech too: try smiling, scowling, or raising your eyebrows.
• Rose raised his eyebrows and drank a cup of Mrs Burbanks’ tea.
• She raised her eyebrows and drew out a hank of hair, backing slowly away from me.
raise your eyebrows
to show surprise, doubt, disapproval etc by moving your eyebrows upwards
Blanche raised her eyebrows in surprise.
→ raise
Examples from the Corpus
raise your eyebrows
• Your facial expressions can help to emphasize parts of your speech too: try smiling, scowling, or raising your eyebrows.
• Rose raised his eyebrows and drank a cup of Mrs Burbanks’ tea.
• She raised her eyebrows and drew out a hank of hair, backing slowly away from me.
• While he was pouring the drinks Ron the landlord raised his eyebrows at me.
• He raised his eyebrows but he didn’t actually skewer my hand to his desk with his favourite kris.
• Karen smiled and raised her eyebrows: Check that!
• She did not speak when he raised his eyebrows the second time, so in went onions, mustard and ketchup.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The dignity of the lawyer
Among lawyers, you have those who are outstanding but there is also recognisable abuse, those who drag the profession through the mud. Embarrassing practices that discredit the lawyer.
It is a runaway system, completely out of control like ‘The Blind Leading the Blind’:
Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind. (next page).
When you bump into a lawyer with no self-awareness, who does abjectly unscrupulous wrong things, you get a situation where you can disrupt society. That kind of person is not fit to be part of the entities of justice and should be removed as a lawyer.
Those who do not feel the human suffering they cause by digging trenches by fraudulently engaging in a war of words to spice up their business model.
A lawyer too has an intrinsic duty to deal with people with honesty and integrity and not to act as the old Flemish expression says: ‘Money makes straight what is crooked’.
It happens that all lawyers do is rob people. It is shameful that justice is sometimes used solely to award lawyers money by using wrongdoing.
It is the kind of lawyers who turn an honest, simple issue into a completely destructive one, instead of resolving it at the snap of their fingers.
A lawyer can deliberately make a complete mess of the life of someone who has done absolutely nothing wrong.
The lawyer: the weakest link in the whole, even a bad apple in the basket of a broken justice system.
A clear example as explicitly cited in the case of Ryan Ferguson, who spent his entire 20s in jail though he was not even at the scene of the crime and the convicted eyewitness who afterwards confessed to lying could not have seen it from where he was!
One can effortlessly use justice for the wrong reasons and deliberately do wrong things, in other words what one achieves is based on a blunder. Blundering of I can’t anymore.
Sticking sticks in the wheels to disrupt a fair course.
Anyone who puts a spoke in the wheel and stops the course of justice from going ahead or stops the real issusse coming to the surfuce will bear an enormously heavy burden of responsibility.
Bij de advocaten heb je zij die uitmuntend zijn maar er is ook herkenbaar misbruik, zij die het vak door het slijk halen. Beschamende praktijken die de advocaat in diskrediet brengen.
Het is een op hol geslagen systeem, zoals in ‘The Blind Leading the Blind’:
Volharden in onwetendheid, denkend wijs en geleerd, zoals gekken doelloos naar hier en daar, zoals de blinde de blinde leidt (volgende pagina).
Wanneer je stoot op een advocaat zonder zelfbesef, die abject gewetenloos foute dingen doet, krijg je een situatie waar je de samenleving kunt ontwrichten. Zo’n soort persoon is niet geschikt om onderdeel te zijn van de entiteiten van justitie en dient geschrapt te worden als advocaat.
Zij die het menselijk lijden niet voelen die ze veroorzaken door loopgraven te graven door frauduleus te werk te gaan met een oorlog van woorden om hun businessmodel te spijzen.
Ook een advocaat heeft de intrinsieke plicht om in alle eerlijkheid en integriteit met mensen om te gaan en niet te handelen zoals de oude Vlaamse uitdrukking zegt: ‘Geld maakt recht wat krom is’
Het gebeurt dat het enige wat advocaten doen is mensen bestelen. Het is beschamend dat justitie soms wordt gebruikt alleenlijk om advocaten geld toe te schuiven door gebruik te maken van foute praktijken.
Het is het soort advocaten die van een eerlijke, eenvoudige kwestie een compleet destructief gebeuren maken, in plaats van het als het ware bij het knippen van de vingers op te lossen.
Een advocaat kan met opzet een complete puinhoop maken van het leven van iemand die helemaal niks verkeerd heeft gedaan.
De advocaat: de zwakste schakel in het geheel, zelfs een slechte appel in de mand van een gebroken justitie systeem.
Een duidelijk voorbeeld zoals uitdrukkelijk vernoemd in de zaak Ryan Ferguson, die zijn volledige twintiger jaren in de gevangenis zat, hoewel hij zelfs niet op de plaats van het misdrijf was en de veroordeelde ooggetuige die achteraf bekend dat hij gelogen heeft, kon het niet gezien hebben vanop de plaats waar hij zich bevond!
Men kan justitie moeiteloos gebruiken voor de verkeerde redenen en bewust foute dingen doen, met andere woorden wat men bereikt is gebaseerd op een blunder. Blunderen van ik kan niet meer.
Stokken in de wielen steken om een fair verloop te ontwrichten.
Wie stokken in de wielen zou steken om de rechtsgang te hinderen of dat de echte kwestie aan de oppervlakte komt, die draagt een enorm zware verantwoordelijkheid.
It is not permissible for a lawyer to have the ability to secretly subvert
a judicial event and thus effortlessly destroy the life of someone of good character
who has done no wrong.
In a justice system used for the wrong reasons,
one plays with a life of a human being or even a child
just like the Candid Camera.
It is ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
It is a disconcerting question regarding the lawyer
Are you still human?
Is this still a society?
If a lawyer uses unlawful practices against his or her better judgment then you get an unlawful decision anyway.
Consequently, fiddling in that way is pointless.
Scamming in that way makes no sense.
In particular, it is meaningless if reality is known by each.
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