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Betty Martin
In slang phr. (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin: ‘all my eye’ (see eye n.1 2 h).
1781S. Crispe Let. 16 Oct. in W. H. Hutton Burford Papers (1905) iv. 69 Physic, to old, crazy Frames, like ours, is all my eye and Betty Martin—(a sea phrase that Admiral Jemm frequently makes use of). 1785[see eye n.1 2 h]. 1812J. & H. Smith Rej. Addr. 104 The knife that I thought that I saw, Was nought but my Eye Betty Martin. 1859Hotten Dict. Slang 1 All my eye, answer of astonishment to an improbable story; All my eye and Betty Martin, a vulgar phrase with similar meaning. 1930W. de la Mare On Edge 108 You might be suggesting that both shape and scarecrow too were all my eye and Betty Martin. |