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curtains twitch phrase UKinformaldisapproving If you say that curtains twitch, you mean that someone is very interested in what their neighbours(= people who live near them) are doing and tries to find out by looking out of the window without being seen: It is easy to imagine the curtains twitching furiously when a young couple moved into the area and refused to clip their hedges. We strolled through the village streets. Curtains twitched; black-clad grannies eyed us with curiosity. They lived in fear that behind twitching net curtains lived intolerant rather than merely curious people. The new family at the end of the street have certainly set the curtains twitching. I was aware of curtains twitching as the police drew up outside our house. See also
twitchverb(PULL) |