ear

ear idiom
In addition to the idioms beginning with ear, also see all ears; believe one's ears; bend someone's ear; can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear; coming out of one's ears; cute as a button (bug's ear); fall on deaf ears; flea in one's ear; have someone's ear; in one ear and out the other; lend one's ear; music to one's ears; out on one's ear; pin someone's ears back; play by ear; prick up one's ears; put a bug in someone's ear; turn a deaf ear; up to one's ears; walls have ears; wet behind the ears.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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