over the left shoulder

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

over the left shoulder

1. (obsolete, slang) Used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief.

   Synonyms: bender, over, over the bender, over the left

   He said it, and it is true — over the left shoulder.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary