Meanings of catch the ear in English

That I catch the ear of Him to whom I speak.

His ideas catch the ear and he knows how long to sustain them.

It is not often we workingmen catch the ear of you employers so readily.

Over lunch she broke off the conversation to catch the ear of a passing clerk.

Everywhere farmers and fishermen were shouting, trying to catch the ear of persons who came to buy.

The same types, the same clothes, the same subjects of conversation in the fragments that catch the ear.

It's one radio-friendly, dancefloor-teasing nugget after another, an album of superbly sculpted tracks each primed to catch the ear.

A pleasing interpretation indeed, and one suited to catch the ear of the people, but, still, not the true one.

Others catch the ear because of their alliteration; that is to say, two or three of their words begin with the same letter.

Randal's voice, too, though pliant and persuasive in private conversation, was thin and poor when strained to catch the ear of a numerous assembly.

The exclamation was explosive enough to catch the ear of an extremely pretty young woman who stood near by with her hands in her pockets.

Both Low and War are smartly ripped in this regard, but the dynamic cadence and fervour of Get Up and Paying also catch the ear.

It caught the ear of her husband, and smote upon his heart.

But it was the next line that caught the ear of experts.

These and other phrases caught the ear of Laura Sloly in the sick-room.

My admiration was so loud, that it caught the ear of the duke.