Those who stood in the pit, which was the ground in ancient theatres.
“To split the ears of the groundlings.”
Shakespeare: Hamlet, iii. 2.
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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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