单词 | in one ear and out the other |
释义 | in one ear and out the otherQuickly forgotten, as in Their advice to her just went in one ear and out the other. This expression, a proverb in John Heywood's 1546 collection, conjures up a graphic image of sound traveling through one's head. [Late 1300s] Words nearby in one ear and out the otherinofficious, inofficious will, in omnia paratus, in one blow, in one breath, in one ear and out the other, in one fell swoop, in one piece, in one's, in one's behalf, in one's blood The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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