"bend someone's ear" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bend someone's ear.ogg [Australia] Forms: bends someone's ear [present, singular, third-person], bending someone's ear [participle, present], bent someone's ear [participle, past], bent someone's ear [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bend<,,bent> someone's ear}} bend someone's ear (third-person singular simple present bends someone's ear, present participle bending someone's ear, simple past and past participle bent someone's ear)
  1. (idiomatic) To bore; to talk too long, especially to one particular person. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Talking Translations (talk too long): iemand de oren van het hoofd kletsen (Dutch), korvia (Finnish), pitkästyttää (Finnish), rebattre les oreilles (French), jemandem ein Ohr abkauen (German), zutexten (German), zanudzać [imperfective] (Polish), все у́ши прожужжа́ть (vse úši prožužžátʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-bend_someone's_ear-en-verb-YDoX6L2z Disambiguation of Talking: 38 23 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 35 37 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 33 29 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 35 28 Disambiguation of English predicates: 28 35 37 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 40 30 30 Disambiguation of 'talk too long': 100 0 0
  2. (idiomatic) To call someone's attention to an important matter. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-bend_someone's_ear-en-verb-NgariGQ5 Disambiguation of Talking: 38 23 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English predicates Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 35 37 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 33 29 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 35 28 Disambiguation of English predicates: 28 35 37
  3. (reflexive) To put a hand behind one's ear and cup it around so as to hear better. Tags: reflexive Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-bend_someone's_ear-en-verb-z2Ll9nSN Disambiguation of Talking: 38 23 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English predicates Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 35 37 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 33 29 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 35 28 Disambiguation of English predicates: 28 35 37

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