be one in the eye for

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be one in the eye for somebody (British & Australian informal)

if something that someone does is one in the eye for someone else, it will annoy that person because they did not want it to happen or did not think it could happen When I got my degree, I thought, 'That's one in the eye for my old head teacher, who said I would never get anywhere.'

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