WordNet
the green-eyed monster
n. a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another [syn: envy, enviousness]
Usage examples of "the green-eyed monster".
Something to wipe away her humiliating rush to The Swamp Shack to save Luc's worthless hide, followed by her humiliating misconception about Luc and what she'd thought was a barroom floozy, not to mention her humiliating jealousyher second bout that day with the green-eyed monster.
At first the Rube laughed with the others, but when Stringer remarked that he had noticed a growing attachment between Nan and Spears, my great pitcher experienced the first pangs of the green-eyed monster.
He took satisfaction in that, considering the green-eyed monster had been sitting on his shoulder all week.