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all my eye

all my eye noun: rubbish, humbug.

Noun

all my eye (uncountable)

  1. (dated) rubbish, humbug
    • That 'ere talk o' yours, Harry, consarnin' dazarts and what not--why, bless me, it's all my eye,--....1849 October, "The Green Hand--A 'Short' Yarn. Part V", in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. LXVI, American ed., vol. XXIX no. 4, page 440
    • "I suppose you mean to say that he has given orders that I am not to be admitted?"...
      "Oh, Mr. Harry, you shouldn't ask me, as is merely a servant."
      ..."That's all my eye, Matthew; you know all about it as well as any one. It is so. He does not want to see me."1883, Anthony Trollope, Mr. Scarborough's Family, chap. 25

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Questions about all my eye

What does all my eye mean?
All my eye means rubbish, humbug.
What part of speech is all my eye?
All my eye is a noun.

Words near all my eye in the dictionary

  1. all manner of
  2. all mops and brooms
  3. all motion and no meat
  4. all mouth and no trousers
  5. all mouth and trousers
  6. all my eye
  7. all my eye and Betty Martin
  8. all night
  9. all nighter
  10. all nighters
  11. all o' y'all

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