split the ears
Example Sentences
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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
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
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 Fernald, James Champlin
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
Squealing to split the ears, the pig-tapirs came galloping past the tree, making for a piece of water some 108 furlongs further on, where doubtless they hoped to evade both the lion and the rhinoceros.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
