Question of the Day #526

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Stony Glare Was the Only Important Part of the State of the Union"

From the headline of this article at Paste.

上記の文で、stony glareの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "stony glare" mean?

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解答

"stony glare"はイディオムとして認められてないらしいので、２つの単語を意味をそれぞれ見ましょう。

意味：
英辞郎によると、stonyの意味は、

1. 石の多い、石だらけの
2. 石質の、石の
3. 石のように冷たい、無感覚な、無表情な、冷酷な

そしてglareは、

1. キラキラ光る［輝く］、ギラギラ光る、目立つ
2. にらみ付ける

したがって、stony glareは「無表情または冷酷な目でにらみ付ける」ことになります。意訳をすれば「冷たい視線」でもいいと思います。

Answer

Apparently, "stony glare" isn't considered an idiom, per se, so we'll look at the two words separately.

According to Lexico stony in this case means:

Not having or showing feeling or sympathy.

According to Merriam-Webster, glare can mean:

an angry or fierce stare

So, a "stony glare" could be an angry or fierce stare that shows no feeling or sympathy.

Examples

• She gave me a stony glare as I walked into the room.
• She does not answer and her stony glare may be variously interpreted as anger or indifference.
• Appeased, Iris followed him out. Pausing only to listen to the hiss of the door closing on Big Evil's stony glare.
• Family may be an obvious choice since you are a family and neither of you wants to ditch this choice to the stony glare of their partner.
• Puck, sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of Pedro shoots him a stony glare.

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