look up and down

Meaning

1. look sb up and down

   to look at sb in a careful or critical way

In the movies · 4

• "I looked up and down the passage and saw a starling in a little cage."Mansfield Park1999
• Think about it. He never even looked her up down there.There's Something About Mary1998
• Now, you want to take a look up and down this country and see the amount of volunteers that are involved in land seizures and cattle drives.The Wind That Shakes the Barley2006
• The other day at the car wash a young man looked me up and down...A Single Man2009

Learn it in full scenes

• There's Something About Mary1998
  • Ted Asks Mary to the Prom
  • Ted Asks Mary to the Prom
  • Ted Meets Mary's Family

From the same entry

• be just looking
• be looking to do
• look bad
• look bad
• look good
• look here
• look how
• look yourself
• never look back
• not much to look at
• to look at
• look after yourself