over the left shoulder
English
Alternative forms
- over the left
Prepositional phrase
over the left shoulder
- (obsolete, slang) Used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief.
- He said it, and it is true — over the left shoulder.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for over the left shoulder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)