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in a pig's eye
Idioms and Phrases
Under no condition, not at all, as in In a pig's eye he'll pay me back , or You think he's competent? In a pig's eye! This expression, a euphemism for in a pig's ass , is generally used as a strong negative. [ Slang ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
“In a pig’s eye!” called Jack through the thin partition of the cabin.
"Extremely serious in a pig's eye," said one.
Another, from the Dark Ages, adds: "In a pig's eye!"
He swung around the cirkle; he didn’t come to make a speech; he hed bin Alderman uv his native town; he mite hev been Dicktater, but woodent; and ended with a poetickal cotashun wich I coodent ketch, but wich, ez neer ez I cood understand, wuz,— “Kum wun, kum all; this rock shel fly From its firm base—in a pig’s eye.”
Run you back to the Crossing in a pig's eye.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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