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bend someone's ear
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Idioms and Phrases
Talk about a matter at tedious length; monopolize someone's attention. For example, Aunt Mary is always bending his ear about her financial problems . This term may have come from the much older to bend one's ear to someone , meaning 鈥渢o listen to someone,鈥 although the current phrase implies a less than willing audience. [ Colloquial ; c. 1940]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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