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get an earful

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get an earful
to have a lot to listen to. His fans got quite an earful — several well-known pieces spiced up with new arrangements.
Usage notes: often said about criticism or unwanted suggestions: I got a very unpleasant earful from a truck driver who thought I was in his way.
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Now she has used that slogan as the title for her ribald new comic memoir, in which gays are her heroes and allies and Bush Republicans get an earful.
``We get an earful at every board meeting from the hired lobbyists of industry,'' he said.
Meanwhile, I'm rediscovering my old favorite places, and in one dive where they still call you "honey," I get an earful from a waitress about the President's most recent fundraising toe-dipping into town.
 
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