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Vocabulary: idioms: ears

Once again, here are idioms concerning a part of the body: ears! Of course, you won't have to study all these expressions, but being able to recognise them, after seeing them, may be important.

Here are a few quite picturesque ones...


To be all ears	A smile from ear to ear	... to go in at one ear and out at the other.

To have itching ears	To lend an ear	ENT department

To have a musical ear	Ear plugs	To be up to one's ears in stg

To have nothing between one's ears	To prick up your ears	To have the wolf by the ears

To pull sb's ear	To speak in sb's ear	To stop one's ears

To flush up to the ears		To have sharp ears
To give a cold ear to		To turn a deaf ear
To have cauliflower ears		To play by ear
Ears tingling		Wet behind the ears

... AND A FEW PROVERBS!



	Turn a deaf ear	Walls have ears

Here you are! Now, you're ready for the test. It's not difficult at all. May the FORCE be with you!

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