[Brian Allgar]

... over here, we use the phrase 'batting an eyelid' rather than an 'eyelash'.

Jayne,

I hate to take issue with you so shortly after becoming a member, but surely even in the Authorized Version (ours) of the English language, the phrase is "batting her eyelashes"?

Brian

Ooops! I must have nodded. (Well, even "Homer" Greenwell does so occasionally.) I didn't read backwards carefully enough. The phrase is indeed "without batting an eyelid". "Batting her eyelashes" is something quite different, and altogether more enticing - that's probably why I seized on it.