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private eye
noun
- a private detective.
private eye
noun
- informal.a private detective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of private eye1
Idioms and Phrases
A privately employed detective, as opposed to one working for the police or another authority. For example, The children loved stories about private eyes, and Janey wanted to become one . This expression comes from the term private investigator , the 鈥渋鈥 of investigator being changed to 鈥渆ye,鈥 which plays on the idea of a person looking into things. [1930s]Example Sentences
The late, great Raymond Chandler and his private eye live on as potential IP for new books, video 亚洲网紅露点, TV projects, graphic novels and more.
The article focused on Robert Winnett, the British journalist poised to take over The Post鈥檚 newsroom in November, and described his links to a private eye who used unethical media practices to land big exclusives.
What Bardo learned from a private eye, stalkers can now find with a click.
鈥淭he New York Trilogy,鈥 which included 鈥淐ity of Glass,鈥 鈥淕hosts鈥 and 鈥淭he Locked Room,鈥 was a postmodern detective saga in which names and identities blur and one protagonist is a private eye named Paul Auster.
New investigations by the district attorney鈥檚 office and the former detective turned private eye, who worked pro bono, uncovered the actual killer and the events that took place on Sept. 2, 2000.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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