split the ears
Example Sentences
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They reacted with a fury that split the ears.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
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 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
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow —— a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
The orchestra, we fear, must have rather "split the ears of the groundlings."
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
