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over the left shoulder

over the left shoulder prepositional phrase: used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief.

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.

Synonyms of over the left shoulder

Questions about over the left shoulder

What does over the left shoulder mean?
Over the left shoulder means used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief.
What part of speech is over the left shoulder?
Over the left shoulder is a prepositional phrase.

Words near over the left shoulder in the dictionary

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

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