my eye

Like hell, that's nonsense, as in You were at the library all day? My eye, you were! This slangy expression of disbelief was first recorded in 1842. From about 1800 to the 1930s the same term was used to indicate surprise (My eye, she's been promoted after all.) but this usage seems to be obsolete.

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To my eye there’s a bit of classic Hollywood to the styling with your record.

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A spiced lettuce cake caught my eye for a moment, mostly because the author made a fair point: If we’ve accepted zucchini bread and carrot cake into the canon, why not lettuce?

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"Any time I watched the Under-21s, Kieron was one that caught my eye," said Clarke.

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Amazon’s word choice, in its statement that its Haul team had the idea, is what first caught my eye.

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To be fair, a lot of wording caught my eye in that exchange, including Trump’s identification of “the problem” not as his tariffs raising our prices, but Amazon publicly disclosing that his tariffs are raising prices.

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Myers My Fair Lady

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