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Walls have ears

Idiom(s): Walls have ears

Theme: PRIVACY

We may be overheard.
• Let's not discuss this matter here. Walls have ears, you know.
• Shhh. Walls have ears. Someone may be listening.

Walls have ears.

Be careful. People could be listening.

Bounce off the walls

If someone's bouncing off the walls, they are very excited about something.

Chinese walls

Chinese walls are regulatory information barriers that aim to stop the flow of information that could be misused, especially in financial corporations.

Good walls make good neighbours

Your relationship with your neighbours depends, among other things, on respecting one another's privacy.

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Sometimes one's most confidential conversations are overheard. "Be careful what you say," he whispered. "Remember that walls have ears."

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The conversation is easily overheard, someone is listening, as in Be careful what you say; the walls have ears. This saying may come from a story about Dionysius of Syracuse (430-367 B.C.), who had an ear-shaped cave cut and connected between the rooms of his palace so that he could hear what was being said from another room. Similar listening posts were installed in other palaces over the centuries, including the Louvre in Paris. In English the phrase was first recorded in its present form in 1620.

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