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All My Eye And Peggy Martin Idiom

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All my eye and Peggy Martin
What does All my eye and Peggy Martin mean?
(UK) An idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the 20th century until the early 1950s or so. The idiom's meaning is literally something said or written that is unbelievable, rumor, over embellished, the result of malicious village gossip etc.

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