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without blinking an eye

without blinking an eye 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 blinking an eye

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

Words near without blinking an eye in the dictionary

  1. without accident
  2. without batting an eye
  3. without batting an eyelash
  4. without batting an eyelid
  5. without biscuits
  6. without blinking an eye
  7. without blinking an eyelash
  8. without blinking an eyelid
  9. without book
  10. without cause
  11. without cease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without blinking an eye (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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