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my eye
Idioms and Phrases
Like hell, that's nonsense, as in You were at the library all day? My eye, you were! This slangy expression of disbelief was first recorded in 1842. From about 1800 to the 1930s the same term was used to indicate surprise ( My eye, she's been promoted after all. ) but this usage seems to be obsolete.Example Sentences
Outside of Progress, a gay man’s sweatshirt caught my eye.
As soon as my feet left the ocean floor and I could no longer feel what was beneath me, I thought I saw something flicker out of the corner of my eye.
An ornate platter of food catches the corner of my eye.
Best hip-hop winner Stormzy thanked Jesus and read a verse from the bible before explaining the was wearing shades as he had "mashed my eye up playing padel".
The price tag caught my eye, higher than I remembered it being just a few weeks ago.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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