split the ears

Synonyms

deafen

Examples

During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, "fit to split the ears of groundlings.”. Kurt Vonnegut

Oh it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. William Shakespeare

Words in the phrase

split the ears

Close letter words and terms

split the baby split the blanket split the difference split the house split the sheets split the wind