{"id":3734,"date":"2023-07-21T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:47:28","slug":"the-ears-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"The Ears Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few days ago I mentioned that I had used an idiom \u2014 \u201cyou got your ears lowered\u201d \u2014 when a friend of mine had gotten a haircut. Well, of course, that got me to thinking\u2026. a lot of expressions that we use involve the word ear or ears. <br>An expression our friend Anne uses a lot is \u201cplay it on the ear.\u201d <br>Of course, I\u2019ve always heard it as \u201cplay it <em>by<\/em> ear,\u201d&nbsp; but it means to respond to circumstances, not having a fixed plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow if you stop to think about it, we use a lot of ear \u201cidioms,\u201d like: lend an ear, in one ear and out the other, out of earshot, keep your ear to the ground, all ears, fall on deaf ears, grinning from ear to ear, and music to you ears,\u00a0<br>Sometimes, you give someone an earful, and are careful what you say because the walls have ears.\u00a0<br>And if you\u2019re too young to recognize or remember some of these expressions, maybe you\u2019re still wet behind the ears\u2026..<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I mentioned that I had used an idiom \u2014 \u201cyou got your ears lowered\u201d \u2014 when a friend of mine had gotten a haircut. Well, of course, that got me to thinking\u2026. a lot of expressions &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}