twinkle in (one's) father's eye

A phrase used to describe the time before one's birth. I never knew my grandparents; they died when I was just a twinkle in my father's eye.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tanya	TAHN-yə (English), TAN-yə (English)	Russian, English
Piripi	-	Maori
Bademus	-	History
Lavrenty	-	Russian
Lysistrate	-	Ancient Greek
Tupaarnaq	-	Native American, Greenlandic