9 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ONE'S EARS ARE BURNING»
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... like news or gossip She will jump with joy this news reaches her ears. one's
ears are burning one suspects that one is being talked about in an unkind way
Listening to all that gossip about her must be leaving her cars burning. have/get/
win ...
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A comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary
panas one's ears are burning (hearing s.t.). -panct panhandle. - putus detached
ear. (ber)- rawah (be) s.o. who won't listen to advice. - rusa ears that stick up. -
telepok layu beautiful ears. - tempayan said of s.o. who doesn't want to listen.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
phrases be all ears informal be listening eagerly. bring something (down) about
one's ears bring misfortune on oneself: she brought her world crashVing about
her ears. one's ears are burning one is subconsciously aware of being talked ...
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Hungarian-English Dictionary
6iz [cipo] creepers tez csukamajolaj /» cod-liver oil csuklas /ii hiccup, hiccough
csukl|ik ige hiccup, hiccough A ,,csuklik" /merf emlegetik] one's ears are burning
csuklo /ii 1. wrist 2. mu5z joint, link csuklos mn miisz hinged A csuk- l6s autobus/
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penny, in for a pound. Such a lexical item can be included as a multilex- ical
lemma even though a dictionary will accumulate many such lemmas in the
vicinity of prepositions and articles. But in an idiom like one's ears are burning the
pronoun ...
6
Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases
New Scientist 1991 Fibre-optic communications, push-button telephones and
microcomputers won't stop the country from literally collapsing around our ears.
one's ears are burning one is conscious that one is being talked about. 17th cent.
The youngest one's ears are burning up madly. After, presumably, a secret code
from their chiel~ steward, the four conscripts hoist themselves — and the entire
set of goalposts, nets and all » up to a knee-high Precious McKenzie squat ...
boy could recite the Stabat Mater and Carmina Burana at the drop of a hat." I felt
a hand on my head, tousling my nearly white, cornsilk hair, my obscurity undone.
"Uh! Looky here! This one's ears are burning," said Father Al. I stood, smiled ...
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2001 Italian and English idioms:
... le orecchie-one's ears are burning. Qualcuno mi pensa; mi fischiano le
orecchie. Someone is thinking about me: my ears are burning. non sentirci da
quell'orecchio -noi to listen. Ho cercato di dirglielo ma da quell'orecchio non ci
sente.
Robert Anderson Hall, Frances Adkins Hall, Susan Z. Garau, 1981
