get an earful

get an earful
{v. phr.}, {informal} To hear more (of usually unwelcome news) than one expects or wishes to hear. * /I asked how Tim and his wife were getting along, and I certainly got an earful./ Contrast: SAY A MOUTHFUL.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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