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"In a pig's eye is rhyming slang for lie, and usually means Nonsense! "As an expression of scorn the expresion was picked up in 1872 by Petroleum V. Nasby (David Locke) in one of his satirical newspaper columns 'poetical cotashuns' which wuz "Kum one, kim all, this rock shel fly From its firm base - in a pig's eye." (From The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985)."
If you mean Pigs a**e, Simon, that is actually an expression here in Aus which means bullsh**. After all, why use a swear word when a swear word conveys the message so much more clearly?
(Having just re-read that I realised the grammar is shocking, but I'm an un-educated Aussie so I can do that)