BY THE EARS

Definition: BY THE EARS

BY THE EARS

1. In close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Contention

Adjective: contending; Verb: together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at issue.

Difficulty

Get into a scrape; Noun: bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn; (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a standstill, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears, hold the tiger by the tail.

Discord

Split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war, try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on; sow dissension, stir up dissension; Noun: embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit against.

At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.

Hate

Excite hatred, provoke hatred; Noun: be hateful; Adjective: stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify; roil.

Resentment

Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.

Crosswords: BY THE EARS

Friends By The Ears. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "BY THE EARS": be by the ears ♦ fall together by the ears ♦ hold the wolf by the ears ♦ set by the ears ♦ set persons by the ears ♦ together by the ears. Additional references.

Finnish

usuttaa (set at strife, set by the ears, set on somebody). (various references)

Hungarian

törököt fogott (have a wolf by the ears, have the wolf by the ears, to hold a wolf by the ears, to hold the wolf by the ears). (various references)

Pig Latin

ybay ethay earsay

Romanian

se lua în cãngi (fall together by the ears), incita la ceartã (set persons by the ears). (various references)

Swedish

tussa ihop (set at each other, set by the ears). (various references)

Turkish

aralarını bozmak (cause bad blood, set at odds, set at variable, set at variance, set by the ears). (various references)

Ukrainian

посваритися (be at variance, be by the ears, wrangle). (various references)

auribus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: breathes.

-2 letters: aethers, barytes, bathers, beaters, berates, berthas, betrays, bheesty, breathe, breaths, breathy, eyebars, heaters, rebates, reheats, sherbet, thereby.

-3 letters: aether, aretes, barest, baryes, baryte, basher, baster, bather, bathes, beater, behest, berate, berets, bertha, berths, betray, brashy, breast, breath, earths, earthy, easter, eaters, eatery, estray, ethers, eyebar, haeres, haters, hayers, hearse, hearts, hearty.

+2 letters: bathysphere.

+3 letters: bathymetries, bathyspheres, breathlessly, erythorbates.

+5 letters: butyraldehydes.

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