eye-shade

Sorry, folks, but budget-balancing is the work of dour, green eye-shade scowlers.

Lining the toe Tom Toles 2011

Conservatives like to bask in the warm glow of that optimism, having shed with relief the heavy burden of the green eye-shade.

Lining the toe Tom Toles 2011

He is very knowledgeable about budget matters without sounding like a green eye-shade guy.

Rep. Peter King interview (Part 2) Jennifer Rubin 2010

Sisman quotes a note of his to an admirer: "I ought to sit, night and day, in the Bodleian library or the Public Record Office, 'with learned dust besprent' ... wearing an eye-shade over my nose and munching a periodic dry bun, in order, by my copying of earlier copyists, to earn my place in some future Dunciad."

In praise of losers 2010

So given my green eye-shade mentality, when I see a $160 mil price tag I'm stunned.

Archive 2008-05-01 Ed Gorman 2008

So given my green eye-shade mentality, when I see a $160 mil price tag I'm stunned.

Trying to dress up a pig Ed Gorman 2008

No one was in the hotbox of a waiting room but an elderly man wearing sleeve garters and an eye-shade who was poking viciously at the innards of a paralyzed electric fan.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

No one was in the hotbox of a waiting room but an elderly man wearing sleeve garters and an eye-shade who was poking viciously at the innards of a paralyzed electric fan.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

But now the lodgers began to look at each other, and then all eyes were turned at once on Mlle. Michonneau, a thin, shriveled, dead-alive, mummy-like figure, crouching by the stove; her eyes were downcast, as if she feared that the green eye-shade could not shut out the expression of those faces from her.

Father Goriot 2003

He rose quickly and approached her in surprise, removing his eye-shade.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003