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Hear

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To hear as a hog in harvest. In at one ear and out at the other; hear without paying attention. Giles Firmin says, “If you call hogs out of the harvest stubble, they will just lift up their heads to listen, and fall to their shack again.” (Real Christian, 1670.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Head and Ears
Head and Shoulders
Head of Cattle
Head over Heels (To turn)
Heads or Tails
Heads I Win, Tails you Lose
Heady
Healing Gold
Health
Heap
Hear
Hearse
Heart
Heart
Heart-breaker (A)
Heart-rending
Heart-whole
Heart and Soul
Heart in his Boots
Heart in his Mouth
Heart of Grace (To take)