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Definition

Would give a great deal; indicating that one desires something greatly.

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In Context

  • "I would give a Jew's eye, I would give my ears, for a five minutes' chat with either of them."
  • "Specimens were there visible, not now as yet at all equalled by our most zealous present-day exhibitors, and for a single graft of whose strain, now lost, some of these would give "a Jew's eye.""
  • "I'd give a Jew's eye for a handful of those apple blossoms—they are divine!"
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