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Lend Me Your Ear ( please listen to me ... )

"Lend Me Your Ear"



Lend me your ear is a polite way of asking for a person's full attention to listen to what you will say.

Example: "Could you lend me your ear for a minute? I need to talk with you about something."



You say lend me your ear when you want to speak directly to people about things that are important.

Example: William Shakespeare used lend me your ear in the play Julius Caesar when Mark Antony says: "Friends, Romans, countrymen; lend me your ear."



Lend me your ear requests a closeness between the speaker and the listener that allows them to think together.

Example: "This is really important. All I ask is that you lend me your ear."





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