split the ears
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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
The orchestra, we fear, must have rather "split the ears of the groundlings."
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow —— a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
It was the liveliest possible spectacle of organized confusion, and the accompanying noise was calculated to split the ears of the groundlings.
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
They do not attempt to "split the ears of the groundlings," and yet they are addressed to the commonest of the world's common people.
From The Young Man and the World by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
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