"flea in one's ear" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If he bothers me again, I'll send him home with a flea in his ear."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1810, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels",
          "text": "\"I came away with two fleas in each ear,\" Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Don Oslear, Wisden's The Laws Of Cricket",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson, A Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker",
          "text": "For when she got home her Instructress severe / Dismissed her to bed with a Flea in her Ear.",
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        "A stinging rebuke or rebuff."
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        "(idiomatic) A stinging rebuke or rebuff."
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        {
          "text": "If he bothers me again, I'll send him home with a flea in his ear."
        },
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          "ref": "1810, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels",
          "text": "\"I came away with two fleas in each ear,\" Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010, Don Oslear, Wisden's The Laws Of Cricket",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson, A Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker",
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic) A stinging rebuke or rebuff."
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