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单词 to hang one's ears
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to hang one's ears
g. to hang one's ears: to be cowed, discouraged. Obsolete.
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. viii. 562 I let it passe, and hanging downe mine eares [Fr. baissant ioyeusement les oreilles], remit my selfe to a better houre to right my selfe.
1678 Earl of Murray in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. lxxxiv. 147 They begine now to hange ther ears..A gentilman tould me..he saw the E. Kincarden & dyvers others..all out of humor.
1701 Dissertator in Burlesque 47 The greater Working Engineers Of Mischief, All shall hang their Ears.
1764 T. Bridges Homer Travestie II. vii. 97 I broke all th' Arcadian spears, And made the scoundrels hang their ears.
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