Ears Phrases

Phrases

• A face as long as a fiddle
• A face like a Greek god
• A great face for radio
• About face
• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• All ears
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Angel face
• Arse about face
• As cute as a bug's ear
• As plain as the nose on your face
• At face value
• Baby face
• Bend your ear
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Blow it out your ear
• Blue in the face

• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Box your ears
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Butter Face
• Cauliflower ear
• Chew face
• Cloth ears
• Cock an ear
• Coming out of your ears
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Don't get a face on
• Donkey's years (Cockney rhyming slang for ears)
• Ear bashing
• Ear candy
• Ear for music
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)

• Ear splitting
• Eat face
• Egg on your face
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Face down
• Face facts
• Face fungus
• Face in the crowd
• Face lift
• Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
• Face like a fiddle
• Face like an unmade bed
• Face like the back of a bus
• Face like thunder
• Face off
• Face palm moment
• Face recognition)

• Face that could stop a clock
• Face that only a mother could love
• Face the competition
• Face the music
• Face the truth
• Face time
• Face your maker
• Fall about your ears
• Fall flat on your face
• Fall on deaf ears
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• Fly in the face of the evidence
• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
• Frog face
• Get out of my face
• Give someone a thick ear
• Grate on the ear

• Grin from ear to ear
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Have someone's ear
• Have your ears chewed off
• Her face lit up
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I'm all ears
• If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face (Carl's Jr advertising slogan)
• If your face fits
• In one ear and out the other
• In your face
• It's written all over your face
• Keep a straight face
• Keep your ear to the ground
• Kick sand in his face
• Laugh in your face
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face

• Lend an ear
• Let's face it
• Let's face the music and dance
• Little pitchers have big ears
• Long face
• Lose face
• Mace your face
• Make a face
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• Music to my ears
• My ears were burning
• Not just a pretty face
• Off your face
• On its ear
• On the face of it
• On the face of the earth
• Out on your ear

• Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• Pig's ear (Cockney rhyming slang for beer)
• Pin your ears back
• Pizza face
• Play by ear
• Play kissy face
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)
• Poker face
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Prick up your ears
• Pull a face
• Put a brave face on
• Put your game face on
• Ring in your ears
• Save face
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Set your face against something

• Shut your face
• Slap in the face
• Smiling from ear to ear
• Someone ears are burning
• Steam coming out of your ears
• Stuff your face
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• Swimmer's ear (Inflamation of the inner ear caused by an ingress of water)
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Face (Nickname of Lt.Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict))
• The answer is staring you in the face
• The face that launched a thousand ships
• The unacceptable face of capitalism
• The walls have ears
• Thick ear
• Throw it back in your face
• Tin ear

• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• Up to your ears
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
• Walls have ears
• Wet behind the ears
• Wipe the smile off your face
• Wipe your face
• Word in your ear
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear

Related

• All ears
• Box your ears
• Cloth ears
• Coming out of your ears
• Donkey's years (Cockney rhyming slang for ears)
• Fall about your ears
• Fall on deaf ears
• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
• Have your ears chewed off
• I'm all ears
• Little pitchers have big ears
• Music to my ears
• My ears were burning
• Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• Pin your ears back
• Prick up your ears
• Ring in your ears
• Someone ears are burning
• Steam coming out of your ears
• The walls have ears
• Up to your ears
• Walls have ears
• Wet behind the ears