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without blinking an eyelash

without blinking an eyelash 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 eyelash

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

Words near without blinking an eyelash in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without blinking an eyelash (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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