Definition
A stinging rebuke or rebuff.
In Context
- "If he bothers me again, I'll send him home with a flea in his ear."
- "Thus spoke the pert hussy and view'd me all round With an eye of disdain and thrice spit on the ground; Look'd proud of her charms, with an insolent sneer, And sent me away with a flea in my ear."
- ""I came away with two fleas in each ear," Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later."
- "As for him getting a flea in his ear, when I had finished with him he did not have an ear left into which a flea could have been deposited."
- "For when she got home her Instructress severe / Dismissed her to bed with a Flea in her Ear."