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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.
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Example Sentences

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"These guys were experts in their field, in my eye," she said.

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He was closer to my eye level but just as good-looking.

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“My husband says I can’t take on another project until this one is done, and this one has been a lot of work,” she said, laughing, “buuuut I do actually have my eye on another spot.”

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And I think you can see that there’s a tear falling out of my eye at that bit because I was having to listen to it and I wasn’t able to respond.

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"I am unable to do anything because of my injury, because my eye hurts, and it tears and feels itchy, and all of the burns on my body feels itchy as well. This is bothering me a lot," he said.

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