"up on one's ear" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, Samuel R Brown, May-day dreams, Passion flowers, Poetic flights and prosy thoughts, book 3, p. 86 (Google preview)",
          "text": "[H]e has been wronged, so he gets up on his ear, and he kicks like a two-year-old bay steer.",
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          "ref": "1916, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 10, in Left Guard Gilbert",
          "text": "\"He's right up on his ear,\" said Clint gloomily. \"If he gets us now he will send us all packing, and don't you doubt it!\"",
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          "ref": "1916, Orison Swett Marden, Selling Things (reprinted in How to Sell without \"Selling\", Robert C. Worstell ed., 2014), ch. 23 (Google preview)",
          "text": "I know a salesman of this sort who will never make his mark, who flares up, \"gets up on his ear,\" as they say, when ever his sensitive, sore spots are touched."
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        "Annoyed, angry."
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        "(archaic, idiomatic) Annoyed, angry."
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