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Fall Together by the Ears (To)

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To fight and scratch each other; to contend in strife. “To fall together by the ears” is “inter se certăre;” but “to set together by the ears” is “discordium concitare.”

 

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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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Fall Through (To)
Fall to (To)
Fall Under (To)
Fall Upon (To)
Fall in With (To)
Fall into a Snare (To)
Fall of Man (The)
Fall of the Drop (The)
Fall Out of (To)
Fall Short of (To)
Fall Together by the Ears (To)
Fall Upon One’s Feet (To)
Falling Bands
Falling Sickness
Falling Stars
Fallow Land
False (The Rule of)
False Ceiling
Falstaff
Falutin (High)
Familiar