ears are burning
feel one's ears burning
Definition of ears are burning
humorous
—used to say that someone has the feeling that other people are talking about him or her I bet his ears are burning right now. “We were talking about you last night.” “That explains why I felt my ears burning.”
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: the characteristic vertebrate organ of hearing and equilibrium consisting in the typical mammal of a sound-collecting outer ear separated by the tympanic membrane from a sound-transmitting middle ear that in turn is separated from a sensory inner ear by membranous fenestrae
: any of various organs (as of a fish) capable of detecting vibratory motion
: the external ear of humans and most mammals
: the fruiting spike of a cereal (such as wheat or corn) including both the seeds and protective structures
: to form ears in growing
: being on fire
: ardent, intense
: affecting with or as if with heat
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