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单词 pig's eye
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(in a) pig's eye (also ear, arse)
P13. colloquial (chiefly North American and Australian). (in a) pig's eye (also ear, arse): used as a derisive retort expressing emphatic disbelief, rejection, or denial.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > contempt or disesteem [phrase] > expressions of contempt
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the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [noun] > expression or formula of
(in a) pig's eye (also ear, arse)1847
nossir1930
1847 J. J. Oswandel Notes Mexican War (1885) iii. 163 Mr. Nicholas P. Trist..is on his way to negotiate with the Mexican government to make peace. How are you peace—peace in a pig's eye.
1876 Oakland (Calif.) Daily Evening Tribune 17 Mar. ‘Bought this mare for $16..’. ‘In a pig's eye you've bought her for $16’.
1951 E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves 322Pig's arse to that!’ another voice cried. ‘A jack-up—that's the shot.’
1968 W. Garner Deep, Deep Freeze ix. 110 ‘One stops short of probing the private lives of people for whom one has a regard.’ ‘In a pig's ear!’ she said vulgarly. ‘If duty called you'd have a man under the bed on my honeymoon.’
1992 O. S. Card Lost Boys (1993) vi. 154 ‘She must not have any idea of the effect of her words then’... ‘In a pig's eye.’
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