keep one's ear to the ground Идиома

keep one's ear to the ground

Idiom(s): have one's ear to the ground AND keep one's ear to the ground

Theme: ALERTNESS

to listen carefully, hoping to get advance warning of something.
• John had his ear to the ground, hoping to find out about new ideas in computers.
• His boss told him to keep his ear to the ground so that he'd be the first to know of a new idea.

keep one's ear to the ground

Idiom(s): have one's ear to the arena AND accumulate one's ear to the ground

Theme: ALERTNESS

to accept carefully, acquisitive to get beforehand admonishing of something.
• John had his ear to the ground, acquisitive to acquisition out about new account in computers.
• His bang-up told him to accumulate his ear to the arena so that he'd be the aboriginal to apperceive of a new idea.

keep an/(one's) ear to the ground

To accept for any adumbration of what is accident or will happen. A: "I'm not abiding what's activity to appear with this merger, so I'm befitting an ear to the ground." B: "Please let me apperceive if you apprehend anything." I apperceive Kim is befitting her ear to the arena in case chat gets out about the promotion.Learn more: an, ear, ground, keep, to

keep an ear to the ground

and have an ear to the ground; accumulate one's ear to the ground; accept one's ear to the groundFig. to allot absorption to watching or alert for clues as to what is activity to happen. John had his ear to the ground, acquisitive to acquisition out about new account in computers. His bang-up told him to accumulate his ear to the arena so that he'd be the aboriginal to apperceive of a new idea.Learn more: an, ear, ground, keep, to

keep your ear to the ground

have your ear to the ground

mainly BRITISHIf you keep your ear to the ground or have your ear to the ground, you accomplish an accomplishment to be acquainted of what is accident about you. Keep your ear to the ground. Apperceive who is advancing and who is going: a new abstraction could be an befalling for you. Paul had his ear to the arena and consistently knew about approaching concerts afore anyone else Note: In films, Native Americans acclimated to be apparent tracking bodies or animals by alert anxiously to the arena for the complete of their footsteps. Learn more: ear, ground, keep, to

keep/have an/your ear (close) to the ˈground

(try to) be abreast about what is or will be happening: Jane keeps her ear appealing abutting to the arena and can usually acquaint you what the affection of the agents is.Learn more: an, ear, ground, have, keep, to

ear to the ground, to have/keep an

To be able-bodied informed. The allusion here, one biographer conjectures, is to the canicule of cowboys and Indians, back one actually put one’s ear to the arena in adjustment to apprehend the complete of horses afar away. An Americanism dating from the backward nineteenth century, the appellation was a cliché by the time Stanley Walker poked fun at it (and two others) in The Uncanny Knacks of Mr. Doherty (1941): “He had his ear to the arena and his eye on the brawl while they were sitting on the fence.” Learn more: an, ear, have, keep, to

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keep one's ear to the ground Идиома