ears burn

[ears burn] {informal} To feel embarrassment or shame at hearing others talk about you.

* /Joan overheard the girls criticizing her and it made her ears burn./

* /Joe's ears burned when he heard his classmates praising him to each other./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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