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over the left

over the left is the ellipsis of over the left shoulder.

Meaning of over the left shoulder

Prepositional phrase

  1. (obsolete, slang) Used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief.
    • He said it, and it is true — over the left shoulder.

Questions about over the left

What is over the left the ellipsis of?
Over the left is the ellipsis of over the left shoulder.

Words near over the left in the dictionary

  1. over the fence
  2. over the head
  3. over the hill
  4. over the hills and far away
  5. over the hump
  6. over the left
  7. over the left shoulder
  8. over the line
  9. over the long haul
  10. over the moon
  11. over the odds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: over the left (page history and authors); over the left shoulder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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