over the left shoulder
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (obsolete, slang) Used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief.
- Synonyms: bender, over, over the bender, over the left
- He said it, and it is true — over the left shoulder.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary