evil eyes

[Naeem Afzal]

Hi teachers,

May God save you from evil eyes! Correct?


Many thanks.

 

[EnglishFix]

yes

 

[emsr2d2]

Grammatically, it's fine. I've never heard it. "The evil eye" is a common enough phrase.

 

[probus]

I think that "the evil eye" is always singular. Twenty-five years ago I planted a coconut palm in my mother-in-law's yard in Goa. On a recent visit I noticed that she had tied the skull of a cow or bullock to the trunk. When I asked her why she said that people had been putting the eye on it, not the eyes.

 

[Naeem Afzal]

May God save you from the evil eye! Right?

 

[Rover_KE]

Right.

 

[Naeem Afzal]

Thank you. ...the people had been putting eyes on it. What does it mean?

 

[probus]

Not eyes: the eye, the evil eye.

See this: Evil eye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Raymott]

May God save you from the evil eye! Right?

"Protect" might be better than 'save'. In any case, if you used that phrase in Australia, few people would understand what you meant unless the entire context was clear.

 

[Rover_KE]

"Protect" might be better than 'save'. In any case, if you used that phrase in Australia, few people would understand what you meant unless the entire context was clear.

Ditto the UK.