Idiom
are your ears burning
Meaning
Asked of somebody who was not present but was the topic of discussion.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Are your ears burning? We were just talking about you.”
“I noticed you walked in right as we mentioned your name, so are your ears burning?”
“As she entered the room and the conversation abruptly ceased, he smiled and asked, are your ears burning?”
Examples
simple
“Are your ears burning? We were just talking about you.”
contextual
“I noticed you walked in right as we mentioned your name, so are your ears burning?”
complex
“As she entered the room and the conversation abruptly ceased, he smiled and asked, are your ears burning?”
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