private eye
a private detective.
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How to use private eye in a sentence
The standard assignments, and the ones that truly built Kroll’s fortune, are undertaken for law firms and corporations, which regularly hire private eyes to gather evidence in legal disputes, run background checks or scope out takeover targets.
The World's Most Famous Private Detective Makes No Apologies | Simon Shuster | September 10, 2021 | TimeThe idea of forcing private eyes to disclose their clients and tactics to a federal regulator have come up in some recent books and opinion pieces.
The World's Most Famous Private Detective Makes No Apologies | Simon Shuster | September 10, 2021 | TimeIn a sense, they are the private eyes of the state’s public data, as they investigate the backstories of new coronavirus cases displayed each day on the Illinois Department of Public Health’s dashboard.
What’s It Like to Be a Contact Tracer? We Spoke With 3 to Find Out. | by Logan Jaffe | October 1, 2020 | ProPublicaHis college classmate, Bill Marshall, is a South Florida private eye.
Elmore Leonard’s Rocky Road to Fame and Fortune | Mike Lupica | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJohnny Depp has a pretty sizeable role in Tusk as the Montreal private eye Guy LaPointe.
Kevin Smith's Marijuanaissance: On 'Tusk,' 'Falling Out' with Ben Affleck, and 20 Years of 'Clerks' | Marlow Stern | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The hero is Lucas Spero, a veteran of the wars in the Middle East and a tough guy private eye.
And Cormoran Strike is a private eye whose company I would share again no matter whose name is on the dust jacket.
His widow gave the private eye a box full of tapes marked “JACKSON” that her husband had been working on.
The Story Behind the Latest Michael Jackson Bombshell | Diane Dimond | July 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI felt like flashing a twenty at him like a private eye did in the old tough-books, but I knew it wouldn't work.
Highways in Hiding | George Oliver SmithMorays professions to Elizabeth may have been a blind, but his letters for Marys private eye have a more genuine air.
The Mystery of Mary Stuart | Andrew LangIn his pocket was a great bunch of newspaper clippings, intended for the private eye of the new Mrs. De Foe's one-time secretary.
The Alternative | George Barr McCutcheon
British Dictionary definitions for private eye
informal a private detective
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Other Idioms and Phrases with private eye
A privately employed detective, as opposed to one working for the police or another authority. For example, The children loved stories about private eyes, and Janey wanted to become one. This expression comes from the term private investigator, the “i” of investigator being changed to “eye,” which plays on the idea of a person looking into things. [1930s]
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