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lend one's ear



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, lend an ear . Pay attention, listen, as in “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar , 3:2). This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1300s]

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