Crazy English Idioms! Some (many many, actually) English idioms are maddeningly insane --- though part of them are so funny when you have known their origins. As fit as a fiddle -------- very healthy-------- what's the relation betwwen health and a fiddle? Send sb. off with a flea in his/her ear ------- is it suggesting that the angry shout is so loud that the hearer's eardrum vibrates very much?I'd say Gosh when I find there are so many idioms about EAR: ------------------------a tin ear about ears all ears all eyes and ears assault the ear be all ears be easy on the ear be music to ears be out on ear be up to ears in be wet behind the ears bend ear Blow it out your ear! box ears can on ear can't believe ears cloth ears cold as a welldigger's ears in January coming out of ears cute as a bug's ear ears are flapping ears must be burning fall on deaf ears falls on deaf ears Fields have eyes, and woods have ears get ears pinned back get ears set out give a thick ear give ear to go in one ear and out the other grin from ear to ear have a word in ear have an ear for have big ears have coming out ears have coming out of ears have ear have ear to the ground have half an ear on have nothing between the/your ears have the ear of I'm all ears In a pig's ear! in one ear and out the other keep an ear out for keep an ear to the ground keep an/ ear to the ground lend an ear lend an ear to like tryin' to scratch your ear with your elbow Little pitchers have big ears lower ears make a pig's ear of music to ears nail ears back not believe ears one's ears are red one's ears are ringing pin back ears pin ears back play by ear play it by ear pound ear prick ears up prick up its ears pull in ears ring in ears send away with a flea in ear talk ear off throw out on ear tin ear turn a deaf ear turn a deaf ear to turn on its ear up to one's ears use your head for more than something to keep your ears apart Walls have ears wet behind the ears You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear What does thins sentence mean? ---------- Well, I see you got your ears set out!