my eye Idiom, Proverb
believe my eyes
(See can't believe my eyes)
can't believe my eyes
cannot believe what I see, it is unbelievable When you walked into that cafe, I couldn't believe my eyes.
give my eye teeth
give something valuable, give my right arm Does he like me? I'd give my eye teeth to know if he likes me.
got my eye on
am interested in, want to to know him/her or buy it A Corvette? No. I've got my eye on a Fiat Spyder.
have my eye on
(See got my eye on)
my eye
I do not believe it, that did not happen You ate fifteen blueberry pies? My eye!
out of the corner of my eye
at my far right or left, to the side Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. It was the cat.
All my eye and Peggy Martin
(UK) An idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the 20th century until the early 1950s or so. The idiom's meaning is literally something said or written that is unbelievable, rumor, over embellished, the result of malicious village gossip etc.
Apple of My Eye
Someone who is cherished above all others.
my eye!
An announcement of dismissal, disbelief, or antipathy for article addition has aloof said. A: "It's bad luck to footfall on the cracks in the sidewalk, you know." B: "Bad luck, my eye! I don't go in for awesome nonsense like that." A: "I anticipate I'm activity to bead out of college." B: "My eye, you are! You've got one added year to go, and you are activity to accomplishment it for Pete's sake!"my eye
Like hell, that's nonsense, as in You were at the library all day? My eye, you were! This slangy announcement of atheism was aboriginal recorded in 1842. From about 1800 to the 1930s the aforementioned appellation was acclimated to announce abruptness ( My eye, she's been answer afterwards all.) but this acceptance seems to be obsolete. Learn more: eyemy eye (or all my eye and Betty Martin)
nonsense. informal, dated Who or what Betty Martin was has never been abundantly explained. Another adaptation of the adage additionally in use in the backward 18th aeon was all my eye and my elbow . 1991 Robertson Davies Murther & Walking Spirits Of advance abounding of the grievances are all my eye and Betty Martin (Anna has best up this soldier's byword from her bedmate and brand to use it to appearance how thoroughly British she has become). Learn more: eye my eye
Slang In no way; not at all. Acclimated interjectionally.Learn more: eye