coming out of someone's ears
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English
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Verb
[edit]- (informal) Occurring or proliferating in great or excess quantity.
- If you plant sixteen tomato plants, you will have tomatoes coming out of your ears by July!
- There will be tomatoes coming out of your ears.
- You'll get tomatoes coming out of your ears.
Usage notes
[edit]- Other verb forms of "come" in the phrase "come out of one's ears" are uncommon.
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Further reading
[edit]- “have something coming out of your ears” (US) / “have something coming out of your ears” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “have sth coming out of your ears”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.