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Lend Me Your Ear (Origin)
What Is the Origin of the Saying "Lend Me Your Ears"?
The term "lend me your ears" means to ask for someone's attention politely.Table of Contents
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Examples of Use:
- Attention, everybody.Lend me ears for a few minutes please. I have an important announcement.
- Lend an ear when your a friend is having a tough time. Talking helps.
- Lend me 50 dollars, not your ear. (Here is word "lend" is being used in two different contexts. It is an example of zeugma.)
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
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