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have a roving eye

old-fashioned humorous

Definition

If you say that someone has a roving eye, you mean that they are always sexually interested in people other than their partner.Sexual attractionAttractive
(Definition of have a roving eye from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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