long search, occurs in Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress, published in 1819, where it appears simply as all my eye, Betty, but that the phrase was known long previously is proved by the extract from Poole quoted above.
Among English Synonyms of refusal or incredulity, are: Cock and bull story; a wild-goose chase; a mare's nest; fiddle-de-dee; do you see any green in my eye? that's a flam; over the left; go teach your grannie to suck eggs; Walker! you be blowed! You be hanged! Not for Joe! How's your brother, Job? Don't you wish you may get it? Yes, in a horn (American); That's all round my hat.
Fr. Des fadeurs (lit. insipidity); C'est des vannes? (lit. floodgates or sluices); des nèfles (lit. medlars); des navets! (turnips); de l'anis! (lit. aniseed); du flan! (lit. custard); tu t'en ferais mourir! (lit. you will die after it); mon œil! (my eye); flûte! Zut! (go to the deuce!); et ta sœur? (phrase of the 'who's your hatter' stamp); des plis! (don't you wish you may get it); la peau! (blow it all!); de la mousse! (expression of ironical refusal); du vent! (go to pot!); des emblèmes!; des fouilles!; on t'en fricasse!
All Nations, subs. (old).--1. A mixture of the drainings of all kinds of spirits and malt liquors; it is of an extremely intoxicating character. Sometimes called alls, or all sorts.
2. A parti-colored dress or coat; a Joseph's garment. Also one that is patched.
All-Night-Man, subs. (old).--A body snatcher. Now obsolete.
1861. Ramsay, Remin, ser. ii., 133. The body lifters, or all-night-men, as they were wont to be called.
All of a Heap.--See Heap.
All of a hough, adv. phr. (tailors').--Said of an unskilled workman. Equivalent to clumsy; bungling; unworkmanlike. Hotten quotes this as a Suffolk phrase (hough being spelt hugh, and pronounced with a grunt). Synonymous with 'all on one side'; falling with a thump.
All of my lone, adv. phr. (American).--A negro vulgarism for 'ALONE.'
All on the Go (vulgarism).--See Go.
All Out, adv. phr. (vulgar).--1. Entirely; completely; by far, as in 'all out the best.' This vulgarism must now be classed among depraved words; but as far as written English is concerned, it can be traced back to the year 1300. It seems to have fallen out of use about the middle of the seventeenth century.
1830. Carleton, Traits and Stories, vol. II., p. 102. 'He's now in his grave, and, thank God, it's he that had the dacent funeral all out.'
2. Another old English expression, now obsolete, is to drink all out, to empty a bumper; and hence,--
3. Used substantively, e.g., an all out being equivalent to what 'Arry would call now-a-days a big drunk. The connection between the ancient and modern usage is clear.
