sharp ears

sharp ears
   Ironically used by one man to another in Eustace Chisholm and the Works, by James Purdy. ‘I could hear you talking out loud to yourself all down the length of the hall,’ says one man. ‘Guess again, sharp ears,’ says the other, and indicates that his wife is in the adjoining bedroom. He was talking to her, not himself.

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