over the left shoulder

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over the left shoulder

  1. (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