| 单词 | to be by the ears |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be (also come, go, fall) by the ears (d) to be (also come, go, fall) by the ears: to be at variance, fall out; to fight. Frequently with together. Now rare.Earliest in to fall together by the ears at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1531 Bp. W. Barlow Dyaloge Lutheran Faccyons sig. i.3v Then was it a wonder to se what murmuracyon, grudge, and rumour of sedycyon was amonge the people, not without lykelyhed of fallynge togyther by the eares & insurreccyon agaynste theyr prynce. 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes f. xxij The apes..skambled and went together by ye eares for the nuttes. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lvi. 18 I thought they wold all haue gone by thears theare. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 280/1 When we be together by the eares like dogs and cattes. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D7v By and by Thei'le be by the eares, vie stabs, exchange disgraces. 1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel i. 32 We must needes fall by the eares together. 1653 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 6 The other took his advertisement so ill that they were like to have fallen by the ears yester. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 73 They would go together by the Ears, about who should go with you. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. xviii. 353 In one place, we fight for a sword; in another, for a horse..in short, we are all by the ears together. 1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 282 I saw clearly that France and England would at length get by the ears. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st Ser. xviii. 180 Take any two men that are by the ears, they opinionate all they hear of each other..and misconstrue every act. 1927 M. de la Roche Jalna xx. 266 Imagine the entire family by the ears because of a kid's music lessons! < as lemmas |
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