split the ears
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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
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
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 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 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)
