split the ears
Example Sentences
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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
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 Huneker, James
Let him split the ears of the groundlings, let him out-Herod Herod,—the judicious might grieve, but all would be excitedly attentive.
From Selections From the Works of John Ruskin by Ruskin, John
He wanted what the French term a tirade to exercise his lungs and split the ears of the groundlings.
From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
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
