"Set by the ears" nghĩa là gì?

Tình yêu thương che lấp vô số tội. Photo by Eric Ward

"Set (someone) by the ears" = làm cho mâu thuẫn với nhau; làm cho cãi nhau.

Ví dụ
“That would set them by the ears,” he said. A congressional Republican warned, “If Mr.Wilson comes to the Capitol to influence legislation.

He wrote from Rome in 1907, "Yeats is a tiresome idiot: he is quite out of touch with the Irish people, to which he appeals as the author of Countess Kathleen. Synge is better; at least he can set them by the ears".

“Europe, without navies, without shipping became for England a mere westward projection of Asia, dominated by warlike peoples who could always be set by the ears and made to fight upon points of dynastic (triều đại) honour, while England appropriated the markets of mankind. Thenceforth, for the best part of a century, while Europe was spent in what, to the superior Britain were tribal conflicts, the seas and coasts of the world lay open to the intrusions of his commerce, his colonists (tên thực dân, người xâm lược), his finance, until there was seemingly nothing left outside the two Americas worth laying hands on.”

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