split the ears
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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
He was a practical politician before he "took the stump" against Christianity, and at all times he has proved his capacity to "split the ears of the groundlings," and make the unskillful laugh.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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 Burroughs, John
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)
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
