not bat an eyelid
UK US not bat an eye/eyelashto show no sign of surprise or worry when something unexpected happens:
She told him she'd spent all her savings but he didn't bat an eyelid.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- emptiness
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- immune
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
- stoicism
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