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lend an ear en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic) To listen to someone.
I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend
I do think you fit this shoe
I do, but you have a clue
1989, Kurt Cobain, “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana:Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: / I come to bury Cæſar, not to praiſe him:
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 121, column 2:
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lend a hand