believe one's ears

English

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Verb

believe one's ears (third-person singular simple present believes one's ears, present participle believing one's ears, simple past and past participle believed one's ears)

1. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To believe that something which one hears is truly the case.

Usage notes

• Usually used in the negative form, such as with cannot, hardly, and scarcely.

Translations

to believe that something which one hears is truly the case

• Dutch: zijn oren geloven
• Finnish: uskoa korviaan
• French: en croire ses oreilles (fr) (in the negative)
• Hungarian: hisz a fülének
• Polish: wierzyć własnym uszom
• Spanish: dar crédito (es)

See also

• believe one's eyes