Listen Phrases

Phrases

• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• Active listening
• All ears
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• As cute as a bug's ear
• As deaf as a adder
• As deaf as a post
• As queer as a nine bob note
• Ask no questions and hear no lies
• Bend your ear
• Blow it out your ear
• But at my back I always hear (from a poem by Marvell)
• Can you hear me now? Good! (Verizon wireless advertising slogan)
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Cauliflower ear
• Cock an ear
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Dialogue of the deaf
• Don't believe everything you hear
• Ear bashing
• Ear candy
• Ear for music
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Ear splitting
• Everything you hear is true (Pioneer advertising slogan)
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fly on the wall
• Give someone a thick ear
• Grate on the ear
• Grin from ear to ear
• Hang on every word
• Hark back to
• Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
• Have someone's ear
• Hear hear
• Hear me out
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• Hear someone out
• Hear tell of
• Hear the last of
• Hear this
• Hear what you like, when you like (Rex Records advertising slogan)

• How's that again?
• I can't hear myself think
• I didn't hear that
• I hear what you say
• I hear you! (A catchphrase from Miss Kraus in Benson)
• I'll not hear a word against him
• I'm all ears
• I'm listening (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• In one ear and out the other
• In space, no one can hear you scream (tagline from the movie Alien)
• Keep your ear to the ground
• Lend an ear
• Listen I will say zis only wunce (A catchphrase from Allo Allo)
• Listen to reason
• Listen up
• Mark my words
• Mutt and Jeff (Cockney rhyming slang for deaf)
• My ears were burning
• Never hear the end of it
• On its ear
• On the alert
• Out on your ear
• Pig's ear (Cockney rhyming slang for beer)
• Pin your ears back
• Play by ear
• Prick up your ears
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• Smiling from ear to ear
• Swimmer's ear (Inflamation of the inner ear caused by an ingress of water)
• Take note of
• The walls have ears
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
• Thick ear
• Tin ear
• Tone deaf
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
• When The Times speaks, the World listens (The Times advertising slogan)
• Wired for sound
• Word in your ear
• Word in your shell-like
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)