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without batting an eyelid

without batting an eyelid is the alternative form of without batting an eye.

Meaning of without batting an eye

Adverb

without batting an eye (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Showing no emotional reaction.
    • Now here she was dropping almost $5,000 on a single outfit without batting an eye.2015, Allison Hobbs, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Hittin' It Out the Park, →ISBN, page 111

Questions about without batting an eyelid

What is without batting an eyelid the alternative form of?
Without batting an eyelid is the alternative form of without batting an eye.

Words near without batting an eyelid in the dictionary

  1. without a trace
  2. without a word of a lie
  3. without accident
  4. without batting an eye
  5. without batting an eyelash
  6. without batting an eyelid
  7. without biscuits
  8. without blinking an eye
  9. without blinking an eyelash
  10. without blinking an eyelid
  11. without book

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without batting an eyelid (page history and authors); without batting an eye (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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