Meaning of would give a Jew's eye | Babel Free

Definitions

Would give a great deal; indicating that one desires something greatly.

colloquial, dated, idiomatic, offensive

Examples

“I would give a Jew's eye, I would give my ears, for a five minutes' chat with either of them.”

“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."”

“I'd give a Jew's eye for a handful of those apple blossoms—they are divine!”

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