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 Green-Eyed Jealousy or Green-eyed Monster.Green Man and Still. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Green in my Eye.
 
Do you see any green in the white of my eye (or eyes)? Do I look credulous and easy to be bamboozled? Do I look like a greenhorn? Credulity and wonderment are most pronounced in the eye.   1
 


 Green-Eyed Jealousy or Green-eyed Monster.Green Man and Still. 

 
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