with all one's ears
English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- With keen auditory attention.
- Coordinate term: with all one's eyes
- 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
- The two old men's talk was of […] the doings thirty years back, which didn't interest him much, except when they spoke of the making of the canal; and then indeed he began to listen with all his ears, […]