worth a Jew's eye
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worth a Jew's eye (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Of high value.
- 1825, The Port Folio, page 118:
- Lord love you, I'd swear it was worth a Jew's eye. Indeed, no money can compensate me for its loss.
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- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary