Idiom
burn someone's ears
Meaning
To cause blushing of someone's ears due to strong embarrassment.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His loud, rude comments really burned my ears.”
“She told such an embarrassing story about me that it burned my ears in front of everyone.”
“The public revelation of his private failures burned his ears, leaving him unable to meet the gaze of his colleagues.”
Examples
simple
“His loud, rude comments really burned my ears.”
contextual
“She told such an embarrassing story about me that it burned my ears in front of everyone.”
complex
“The public revelation of his private failures burned his ears, leaving him unable to meet the gaze of his colleagues.”
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