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Meaning of all my eye and Betty Martin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
/ɔːl maɪ ˈaɪ ən(d)ˌbɛtɪ ˈmɑːtɪn/

Definitions

rubbish, humbug

dated, uncountable

Examples

“1881 Thomas Bastard, The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, at Project Gutenberg Australia All my eye and Betty Martin, thought I, I will have no more truck with you.”
“Oh, that's all my eye and Betty Martin! Nobody believes that, I should hope.”
“Bins the bowl as he says "Falsehoods and a man of straw is all my eye and Betty Martin saw"”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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