Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flea in one's ear

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: flea in one's ear
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A stinging rebuke or rebuff.

Example Sentences

"If he bothers me again, I'll send him home with a flea in his ear."
"Thus spoke the pert hussy and view'd me all round With an eye of disdain and thrice spit on the ground; Look'd proud of her charms, with an insolent sneer, And sent me away with a flea in my ear."
""I came away with two fleas in each ear," Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later."
"As for him getting a flea in his ear, when I had finished with him he did not have an ear left into which a flea could have been deposited."
"For when she got home her Instructress severe / Dismissed her to bed with a Flea in her Ear."

Inflected Forms

fleas in one's ear (plural)

Questions

What does flea in one's ear mean?: A stinging rebuke or rebuff.

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