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without blinking an eyelid

without blinking 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 blinking an eyelid

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

Words near without blinking an eyelid in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without blinking 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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