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one in the eye for

one in the eye for phrase: an event or achievement which is unpleasant for someone, especially for those who considered it impossible or unwelcome; an annoyance.

Phrase

one in the eye for

  1. (idiomatic) An event or achievement which is unpleasant for someone, especially for those who considered it impossible or unwelcome; an annoyance.
    • The success of Firefox is one in the eye for Microsoft.

Questions about one in the eye for

What does one in the eye for mean?
One in the eye for means an event or achievement which is unpleasant for someone, especially for those who considered it impossible or unwelcome; an annoyance.
What part of speech is one in the eye for?
One in the eye for is a phrase.

Words near one in the eye for in the dictionary

  1. one hundred percent
  2. one hundred percent American
  3. one hundred percent Americans
  4. one hundred thousand
  5. one in a million
  6. one in the eye for
  7. one in the same
  8. one is a poet and doesn't know it
  9. one joke
  10. one jump ahead
  11. one kind

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