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have one's ears lowered

have one's ears lowered verb: to get a haircut.

Verb

have one's ears lowered (third-person singular simple present has one's ears lowered, present participle having one's ears lowered, simple past and past participle had one's ears lowered)

  1. (dated, humorous, idiomatic) To get a haircut.
    • When you need a haircut, you go to a barber, so here I am at Tommy's Bronxville's tonsorial prepared to get clipped. Or, as we said as kids, have my ears lowered.2006 June 25, “Cutting to the Chase at Barber Shop”, in New York Daily News

Forms of have one's ears lowered

third-person singular presenthas one's ears lowered
present participlehaving one's ears lowered
past participlehad one's ears lowered
pasthad one's ears lowered

Origin of have one's ears lowered

Hair cuts change the relative position of the end of a person's hair and the person's ears and the term is based on the humorous supposition that the same effect could have been achieved by moving the ears lower down the person's face.

Questions about have one's ears lowered

What does have one's ears lowered mean?
Have one's ears lowered means to get a haircut.
What part of speech is have one's ears lowered?
Have one's ears lowered is a verb.
What is the past tense of have one's ears lowered?
The past tense of have one's ears lowered is had one's ears lowered.

Words near have one's ears lowered in the dictionary

  1. have one's bread buttered for life
  2. have one's bread buttered on both sides
  3. have one's cake and eat it
  4. have one's cake and eat it too
  5. have one's ducks in a row
  6. have one's ears lowered
  7. have one's ears on
  8. have one's ears pinned back
  9. have one's eye on
  10. have one's fill
  11. have one's finger on the pulse

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