lend one's ear

Also, lend an ear. Pay attention, listen, as in "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3:2). This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1300s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Chukwudi	-	Western African, Igbo
Ansovald	-	Ancient Germanic
Deborah	DEB-ə-rə (English), DEB-rə (English)	English, Hebrew, Biblical
Bayard	-	Literature
Franciszek	frahn-CHEE-shek	Polish
Sue	[su:]