up on one's ear | Idiomator

Meaning: (archaic,idiomatic)Annoyed,angry.1870–1871(date written),Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LXXVII, inRoughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company[et al.], published1872,→OCLC,page552:When you gotup on your earand called me names, and said I had brought you eleven miles to look at a sapling, didn't Iexplainto you that all the whale-ships in the North Seas had been wooding off of it for more than twenty-seven years?1890, Samuel R Brown,May-day dreams, Passion flowers, Poetic flights and prosy thoughts,book 3, p. 86 (Google preview):[H]e has been wronged, so he getsup on his ear, and he kicks like a two-year-old bay steer.1916,Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 10, inLeft Guard Gilbert:"He's rightup on his ear," said Clint gloomily. "If he gets us now he will send us all packing, and don't you doubt it!"1916,Orison Swett Marden,Selling Things(reprinted inHow to Sell without "Selling", Robert C. Worstell ed., 2014),ch. 23 (Google preview):I know a salesman of this sort who will never make his mark, who flares up, "getsup on his ear," as they say, when ever his sensitive, sore spots are touched.

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