Everybody knows that husbands give half an ear to the discourse of their wivesand vice versa.
Howard Levine, an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Cleveland, claims good results from 25 patients.
The best sales assistants have an engaging manner and an ear for personal detail.
"In the first instance though it's just being an ear for someone, " he said.
He describes a mother who brought in her young son for an ear exam.
The head tilt is a universal gesture of giving the other person an ear.
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Anyone serious about their career will always keep an eye and an ear open.
Mr Sullivan has an ear for lyrical phrases and for catching the idiom of everyday speech.
Salyes has an ear for regional accents and colloquial dialogue, and an eye for quotidian details.
However, this will I suspect be undetectable to those without an ear for British accents.
The company keeps an ear out for less-than-completely-satisfied feedback, and bends over backwards to make things right.
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The animators had to figure out how to pop out an eye without sliding down an ear.
Or you can blast an ear-busting siren that can only be stopped by prying out the battery.
But this time people will also be keeping an ear out for some crucial news from distant Britain.
They respected her consummate professionalism and an ear so keen that she could, she said, hear grass grow.
When the cough became worse Dr Kerr referred her to an ear, nose and throat specialist in November.
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He survived a German-shepherd attack in which he lost part of an ear.
The best we can find is an ear that has produced seven kernels.
As she walks them through the revenue model, she hears an ear-piercing noise.
But most people are only listening with half an ear, and much of what they think they know is wrong.
Thus, we will be keeping an ear to the ground for any word that inflation is starting to matter to traders.
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The result is a work by someone who not only understands Homer's Greek, but who also has an ear for modern verse.
On the other hand, this cousin was an ear-nose-and-throat specialist by training.
He has spent the last few weeks trying to outsmart an older black and white spotted male that's missing half an ear.
They connected, person-to-person, with the intimacy of a whisper in an ear.
But the audio feature is far from perfect: Amazon's text-to-speech software mispronounces most obscure words and doesn't have much of an ear for dialogue.
He recorded music he liked with performers he liked, and he kept an ear out for the generation that was coming up behind him.
The new "sufficient" standard will mean that the risk of someone becoming ill with an ear infection or stomach upset must not exceed 8%.
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Finally, when the children reached the age of seven, the researchers gave them full medical examinations, keeping an ear out for signs of asthma.
And keep an ear out to see if any of your colleagues received promotions recently, as it shows whether management is open to the idea.
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