subs. phr. (common).—The thread of fat in a leg of mutton.
1852. C. W. SHIRLEY BROOKS, Miss Violet and Her ‘Offers,’ ch. x. The oratorial undertaker having made a most successful joke about the POPE’S EYE on a leg of Protestant mutton.
1869. BLACKMORE, Lorna Doone, ii. You should have … the POPE’S-EYE from the mutton.
