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 Eye.Eye-sore. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Eye-service.
 
Superficial service. “Service qu’on rend sous les yeux du maitre.”   1
        “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters … .; not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ.”—Eph. vi. 5, 6.
 


 Eye.Eye-sore. 

 
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