1.bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient2.at sb's beck and call
to prick up one's ear and listen carefully
loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
to watch and listen attentively
1.lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear2.fig. to completely disregard
1.lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear2.fig. to completely disregard
lit. as the autumn breeze passes the ear (idiom); not in the least concerned
1.earhole2.ear piercing hole; earring hole
1.lit. ears pure and peaceful (idiom)2.to stay away from the filth and unrest of the world
1.lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom)2.fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood
words still ringing in one's ears (idiom)
Hermes, in Greek mythology, messenger of the Gods
1.speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths2.home truths (that one does not want to hear)
the walls have ears (idiom)
1.(lit.) the east wind blowing in a horse's ear (idiom)2.(fig.) words one pays no heed to
to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)
(of a song or tune) catchy
to remove earwax with an ear pick
to remove earwax with an ear pick
1.trunnion2.protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot
to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
in-ear monitor (abbr. for 耳机返听系统[ěr jī fǎn tīng xì tǒng]) (contrasted with 地返[dì fǎn])
1.(men) sideburns2.(women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples
1.snow fungus (Tremella fuciformis)2.white fungus
internal auditory meatus (canal in temporal bone of skull housing auditory nerves)
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata), esp. its edible rhizome
(bird species of China) chestnut-eared bunting (Emberiza fucata)
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), English chemist
(bird species of China) short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)
(bird species of China) red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)
1.(dialect) henpecked2.to be under one's wife's thumb
1.(dialect) earpick2.curette