split the ears
Example Sentences
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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
He must not tear a 'passion' to tatters, to split the ears of the incompetent, but in the very tempest of passion is to keep a temperance and smoothness.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
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 Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
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
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 Bell, Lilian
