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Sirithvagorien Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Smoke one's ear off
Hi all
I have come upon the following phrase in a text:
"They all smoked their ears off and......"
Of course, I am familiar with the idiom "to talk someone's ear off", but I have never heard of this. It is obviously clear that they smoked, but I have neard heard anyone say "to smoke one's ear off". Is it a real idiom? Or is it perhaps a "homemade" phrase invented by the author?
Thanks!
I have come upon the following phrase in a text:
"They all smoked their ears off and......"
Of course, I am familiar with the idiom "to talk someone's ear off", but I have never heard of this. It is obviously clear that they smoked, but I have neard heard anyone say "to smoke one's ear off". Is it a real idiom? Or is it perhaps a "homemade" phrase invented by the author?
Thanks!
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There are zero Google hits for "smoked their ears off" (apart from this one), which suggests it's a "homemade" expression meaning "smoked very heavily", patterned on similar "verb-ed one's noun(s) off" formulations like "laugh one's head off", "work one's **** off", etc.
- There are zero Google hits for "smoked their ears off" (apart from this one), which suggests it's a "homemade" expression meaning "smoked very heavily", patterned on similar "verb-ed one's noun(s) off" formulations like "laugh one's head off", "work one's **** off", etc.
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There are zero Google hits for "smoked their ears off" (apart from this one), which suggests it's a "homemade" expression meaning "smoked very heavily", patterned on similar "verb-ed one's noun(s) off" formulations like "laugh one's head off", "work one's **** off", etc.
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