"have one's ears lowered" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Hair cuts change the relative position of the end of a person's hair and the person's ears and the term is based on the humorous supposition that the same effect could have been achieved by moving the ears lower down the person's face.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> one's ears lowered"
      },
      "expansion": "have one's ears lowered (third-person singular simple present has one's ears lowered, present participle having one's ears lowered, simple past and past participle had one's ears lowered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "en:Hair",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "Health"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 June 25, “Cutting to the Chase at Barber Shop”, in New York Daily News:",
          "text": "When you need a haircut, you go to a barber, so here I am at Tommy's Bronxville's tonsorial prepared to get clipped. Or, as we said as kids, have my ears lowered.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get a haircut."
      ],
      "id": "en-have_one's_ears_lowered-en-verb-TiigOWly",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "haircut",
          "haircut"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, humorous, dated) To get a haircut."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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  ],
  "word": "have one's ears lowered"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Hair cuts change the relative position of the end of a person's hair and the person's ears and the term is based on the humorous supposition that the same effect could have been achieved by moving the ears lower down the person's face.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's ears lowered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> one's ears lowered"
      },
      "expansion": "have one's ears lowered (third-person singular simple present has one's ears lowered, present participle having one's ears lowered, simple past and past participle had one's ears lowered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Hair"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 June 25, “Cutting to the Chase at Barber Shop”, in New York Daily News:",
          "text": "When you need a haircut, you go to a barber, so here I am at Tommy's Bronxville's tonsorial prepared to get clipped. Or, as we said as kids, have my ears lowered.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get a haircut."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "haircut",
          "haircut"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, humorous, dated) To get a haircut."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "have one's ears lowered"
}