" I hear my being dance from ear to ear". Here ear to ear refers to_____________?
Correct answer: D. a complete experience
- A. a round about way of telling things
- B. a heart warming smile
- C. listening through an ear and pass it off through the other
- D. a complete experience
Explanation
“From ear to ear” suggests something extending across the whole range of a person’s experience or being in this poetic context. It is not being used in the ordinary idiom of smiling broadly.
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