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green-eyed monster

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[green-eyed monster] {n. phr.}

Jealousy; envy.

* /When John's brother got the new bicycle, the green-eyed monster made John fight with him./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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