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Idioms and Phrases
Showing no emotion, acting as though nothing were unusual. For example, Richard ate the snails without batting an eye . A related phrase is not bat an eye , as in He didn't bat an eye when she told him he was being laid off . These expressions, which use bat in the sense of “blink,” date from about 1900.Advertisement
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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