prick up one’s ears

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Hosanna could see it too, and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window.

Your eyes and your ears do not co-ordinate; it is very much like the sensation of a fever. The chimneys are bewildered, the roofs, slippery and uncertain. Dormer windows prick up their ears like terriers.

There was a studied casualness in his tone that made Melissa prick up her ears. We’re next-door neighbours.

No, I’ve got three different letters and one that’s the same as another I was new before I met you Complete the film title, prick up er, oh start again, prick up your ears, bottom or pantyhose?

(BNC-B)

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