(2 syl.) A jaundiced eye. A prejudiced eye which sees
“faults that are not.” It was a popular belief among the Romans that to
the eye of a person who had the jaundice everything looked of a yellow
tinge.
(French, jaune, yellow.)
All seems infected that thinfected spy,
As all seems yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Pope: Essay on Criticism.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
