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Eye-service

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Superficial service. “Service quʹon rend sous les yeux du maitre.”

“Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters … .; not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ.”—Eph. vi. 5, 6.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Exquisite
Extensive
Exter
Extinct Species [since the time of man]
Extravagantēs Constitutionēs
Extreme Unction
Extremes Meet
Extricate
Exult (Latin)
Eye
Eye-service
Eye-sore
Eye-teeth
Eye of a Needle
Eye of Greece (The)
Eye of the Baltio (The)
Eye of the Storm
Eyes
Eyed
Eyre
Eyre (Jane)