英语词汇all ears的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	all ears
词源	all ears. I’m all ears, I’m listening attentively, is hardly mod- ern slang, being at least three centuries old. Its first recorded use in this precise form is by Anthony Trollope in 1865. But over two centuries before this Milton wrote in Comus (1634): “I was all ear,/And took in strains that might create a soul/Under the ribs of death.”
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