Brewer's: 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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