keep an ear to the ground
- keep an ear to the ground
keep an ear to the ground & have an ear to the ground & keep one's ear to the ground & have one's ear to the ground
Fig. to devote attention to watching or listening for clues as to what is going to happen. •
John had his ear to the ground, hoping to find out about new ideas in computers.
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His boss told him to keep his ear to the ground so that he'd be the first to know of a new idea.
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See: EAR TO THE GROUND.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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