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Origin of private eye 1935ā40; eye, allusive phonetic rendering of I, abbreviation of investigator
Words nearby private eye private equity ,
private-equity company ,
private equity fund ,
privateer ,
privateersman ,
private eye ,
Private Finance Initiative ,
private first class ,
private health insurance ,
private hotel ,
private income
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Words related to private eye private detective ,
private investigator ,
sleuth ,
detective ,
gumshoe ,
investigator ,
agent ,
beagle ,
bird dog ,
bloodhound ,
dick ,
skip tracer ,
sleuthhound ,
snoop ,
spotter
How to use private eye in a sentence The standard assignments, and the ones that truly built Krollās fortune, are undertaken for law firms and corporations, which regularly hire private eye s to gather evidence in legal disputes, run background checks or scope out takeover targets.
The idea of forcing private eye s to disclose their clients and tactics to a federal regulator have come up in some recent books and opinion pieces.
In a sense, they are the private eye s of the stateās public data, as they investigate the backstories of new coronavirus cases displayed each day on the Illinois Department of Public Healthās dashboard.
His college classmate, Bill Marshall, is a South Florida private eye .
Johnny Depp has a pretty sizeable role in Tusk as the Montreal private eye Guy LaPointe.
The hero is Lucas Spero, a veteran of the wars in the Middle East and a tough guy private eye .
And Cormoran Strike is a private eye whose company I would share again no matter whose name is on the dust jacket.
His widow gave the private eye a box full of tapes marked āJACKSONā that her husband had been working on.
I felt like flashing a twenty at him like a private eye did in the old tough-books, but I knew it wouldn't work.
Morays professions to Elizabeth may have been a blind, but his letters for Marys private eye have a more genuine air.
In his pocket was a great bunch of newspaper clippings, intended for the private eye of the new Mrs. De Foe's one-time secretary.
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British Dictionary definitions for private eye
noun
informal a private detective
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Other Idioms and Phrases with private eye
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 āiā of investigator being changed to āeye,ā which plays on the idea of a person looking into things. [1930s]
The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary
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