split the ears

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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

He is of old standing, a veteran of the Church Epiphany plays, and has already learnt 'to split the ears of the groundlings' with the stentorian sound of his pompous rhetoric.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

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)

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