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Quaint Turns of Phrase
cut of his jib, do the square thi..., laws-a-massy, saints preserve us, napoo finny, pregnant pause, top o' the mornin', no spring chicken, worth each other'..., in high dudgeon, take umbrage, gives me the pip and 236 more...
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All My Eye
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all my eye and be..., hedged about by a..., god save the moul..., say the ape pater..., play the sedulous...
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bilby "The phrase or saying, all my eye and Betty Martin means that something is total and complete nonsense. It is found in British English from the eighteenth century on, but is hardly known today. It is first recorded in a letter of 1781 that was collected in W H Hutton’s Burford Papers. We also know that all my eye, with the same sense, is at least half a century older."
And more (ultimately fruitless) etymological conjecture over at World Wide Words. Jan 27, 2013
dontcry Possibly related to smack my ass and call me judy? Jan 16, 2010
jennarenn Poor Betty. What does this one mean? Jan 16, 2010