I'm up to my ears in work at the moment.) I always thought this was some sort of deliberate sixties era political gender bending statement, but it turns out it was just a mistake and Lenin Lennon didn’t like. be up to one's ears in something = to have too much to do (I can't go to the movies with you tonight. In looking it up, I learned something interesting about the song (towards the end there’s a reversal in the word order so that Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face. wet behind the ears = to be young and inexperienced (Give him a second chance. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point. Lend me your ears and Ill sing you a song. fall on deaf ears = when people ignore something that someone says (Sometimes I feel like my advice to the team just falls on deaf ears) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lend Me Your Ears. Whaaat would you dooooo if I saaang outta tune Wouldyoustandupandwalkoutonme Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song and I’ll try not to sing outta key GH I had lunch with Dan Lauria once. Translations in context of Lend me you ear in English-Romanian from Reverso Context: Lend me you ear. Let us turn our attention to other expressions that refer to the ear (without the violence): This is also the scene that popularised the saying "et tu Brutus?" (you as well Brutus?), after Brutus is the last to stab Caesar. made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision. Anthony implores the crowd to "lend me your ears" and convinces them to drive the assassins from the city. Lend me your ears and Ill sing you a song. In the master's work Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony is presiding over Caesar's burial after the conspirators in the Roman Senate have stabbed the Roman leader to death.
We'll never know the truth about van Gogh's ear, but one thing is certain: we can thank Shakespeare for today's phrase. Some people have jokingly suggested that the expression "lend me an ear" originated from the argument that Vincent van Gogh had with his friend Paul Ganguin, in which van Gogh allegedly cut off his own ear in a fit of rage (two German historians believe that Ganguin actually severed van Gogh's ear in a fencing match).
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