"little pitchers have big ears" meaning in All languages combined

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Proverb [英語]

Forms: Little pitchers have big ears [canonical], bigに替えてlongを用いる場合もある
  1. 小さな水差しは大きな耳を持つ。壁に耳あり障子に目あり。
    Sense id: ja-little_pitchers_have_big_ears-en-proverb-UVrGlXYw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 英語, 英語_ことわざ
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