Brewer's: Eye-service

Superficial service. “Service qu'on rend sous les yeux du maître.”

“Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters ...; not with eye-service, as men pleases; but as the servants of Christ.” —Eph. vi. 5, 6.

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