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would give a Jew's eye en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, dated, idiomatic, offensive) Would give a great deal; indicating that one desires something greatly.
    • Specimens were there visible, not now as yet at all equalled by our most zealous present-day exhibitors, and for a single graft of whose strain, now lost, some of these would give "a Jew's eye." 1894, George Cupples, James Hutchison Stirling, Scotch Deer-hounds and Their Masters, page 47:
    • I'd give a Jew's eye for a handful of those apple blossoms—they are divine! 1910, Thomas W. Hanshew, Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces:
    • I would give a Jew's eye, I would give my ears, for a five minutes' chat with either of them. 1865, Skunks (Major, pseud.), The Great Battle of Patchumup (page 32)

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