split the ears

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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

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

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

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

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