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