split the ears
Example Sentences
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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
Let us go and hold high carnival for a week, and split the ears of the groundlings with our "contemptible squeals of joy."
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
It is written to split the ears of the groundlings, or rather to astonish and confuse them, for the Chopin dynamics in the early music are never very rude.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
Then the manager made a little speech and called, for three cheers for the proprietor, and they gave them with a fervor that nearly split the ears of the groundlings.
From As Seen By Me by Lilian Bell
