Idiom "All my eye and Peggy Martin"

[Popescucristina96]

Hy all..i need an explanation for the following idioms:)please
"Ambulance chaser "
"All my eye and Peggy Martin" :roll: :roll: :oops:

[Milanya]

ambulance chaser – a lawyer who seeks accident victims as clients and encourages them to sue for damages

Idiom: All my eye and Peggy Martin - An idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the 20th century until the early 1950s or so. The idiom's meaning is literally something said or written that is unbelievable, rumor, over embellished, the result of malicious village gossip, etc.
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[Popescucristina96]

thanks Milanya :wink: :D

[Alan]

Hi,

This is often written as 'all my eye and Betty Martin'. It is said to be a corruption of the Latin: Oh, mihi, beate Martine! suggesting: Oh, grant me St Martin! and was used as a prayer by sailors. It still means: I don't believe a word you're saying.

Alan
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[Popescucristina96]

Thanks Mr Alan :)

[Milanya]