lend an ear

present singular third person lends an ear · participle present lending an ear · participle past lent an ear · past lent an ear

1. idiomaticTo listen to someone.

   Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: / I come to bury Cæſar, not to praiſe him:

   1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 121, column 2

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   I need an easy friend I do, with an ear to lend I do think you fit this shoe I do, but you have a clue

   1989, Kurt Cobain, “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana