"buy with one's ears" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "buys with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buying with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "buy<,,bought> with one's ears"
      },
      "expansion": "buy with one's ears (third-person singular simple present buys with one's ears, present participle buying with one's ears, simple past and past participle bought with one's ears)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Art",
          "orig": "en:Art",
          "parents": [
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            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Foreign buyers entering the western art market are also buying artists with their ears rather than their eyes, and overpaying if others have.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value."
      ],
      "id": "en-buy_with_one's_ears-en-verb-jxFLqTvx",
      "links": [
        [
          "art",
          "art#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "reputation",
          "reputation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(art, colloquial) To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "art",
        "arts"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buy with one's ears"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buys with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buying with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought with one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "buy<,,bought> with one's ears"
      },
      "expansion": "buy with one's ears (third-person singular simple present buys with one's ears, present participle buying with one's ears, simple past and past participle bought with one's ears)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
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        "en:Art"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Foreign buyers entering the western art market are also buying artists with their ears rather than their eyes, and overpaying if others have.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "art",
          "art#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "reputation",
          "reputation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(art, colloquial) To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "art",
        "arts"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buy with one's ears"
}