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Glass-eye

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A blind eye, not an eye made of glass, but the Danish glas-oie (wall-eye).

 

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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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Glass Breaker (A)
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