coming out my ears

Gift tags coming out my ears

@JudyEv (339414)

Rockingham, Australia

November 8, 2024 7:45pm CST

The photo has nothing to do with the post. It’s our national floral emblem – the wattle. I wrote in a response earlier today that I had gift tags ‘coming out my ears’. What a strange idiom this is. In case English isn’t your first language, it means that you have an over-abundance of something. In my case, I have enough gift tags for many, many Christmas’s. I tried to research the phrase but couldn’t find out how it might have originated. Perhaps someone else will have better luck.

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@xFiacre (12966)

• Ireland

9 Nov

@judyev I suppose the saying creates a prettier image that if it was (as it might well have been) coming out of one’s rear.

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@BarBaraPrz (47254)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

9 Nov

@judyev By gad! I think she's got it!

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov

Certainly a prettier image.

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@rakski (121963)

• Philippines

9 Nov

After the holiday sale, I had candles coming out of my ears. Is this sentence good? This is the first time I have encountered that idiom

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov

Yes, that's pretty much how you'd use it.

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@rakski (121963)

• Philippines

9 Nov

@JudyEv great! I learn a new idiom here

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@Juliaacv (51045)

• Canada

9 Nov

I can relate, they seem to sell them in the gross and that is how I have so many, probably more than I have use for ever in this lifetime. Your national flower is pretty.

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@Juliaacv (51045)

• Canada

10 Nov

@JudyEv I ordered pretty gold labels when we moved into our home in the country. Even after over 20 years of living there and actually sending a decent amount of mail, which we no longer do, I had sheets and sheets of labels when we moved. I'll never order them again for the amount of mail that I send out it is wasteful.

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@Juliaacv (51045)

• Canada

11 Nov

@JudyEv Yes that is very true. My hubs does consultant health and safety training, and his cards are old, but his email and phone number are still current on them. Most of his clients are long time and already have them in their contacts.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Nov

@Juliaacv We now have a surplus of business cards too. They are cheaper to buy if you order a certain number but now they have the wrong address on them and our Website cards about the photography will no longer be useful as we will be closing the site. However, I'm using business cards to write my grocery orders. They will still last a very long time.

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@LadyDuck (471253)

• Switzerland

9 Nov

The Italian custom since Women's Day 1946 is to celebrate the women on March 8 with a sprig of golden wattle (Mimosa). I like those branches. We use the same idioms in Italy ‘coming out my ears'.

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@LadyDuck (471253)

• Switzerland

10 Nov

@JudyEv - It is very possible. There is a place in the South of France called "Bormes les Mimosas" where the golden wattle trees are so many that you can feel the smell in the air even driving on the close highway. It's a very pretty small town.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Nov

@LadyDuck Our red flowering gum was introduced into California and I think it is now a pest over there.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

I think you've mentioned that before. Italy has much the same climate as much of Australia so we probably have some of the same vegetation.

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@Ronrybs (19153)

• London, England

9 Nov

I knew the wattle was the national emblem, but only because of Monty Python and their Bruce sketch!

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

It's funny where you can pick up trivia from sometimes.

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@LindaOHio (177809)

• United States

9 Nov

I have enough gift bags and wrapping paper to last another 20 years or more. I won't live that long! Have a good weekend.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

I don't have so much paper now but I haven't bought any for ages.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Nov

@LindaOHio I only have a few bags but I've donated a lot of bottle bags.

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@LindaOHio (177809)

• United States

10 Nov

@JudyEv I have a huge selection of gift bags too.

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@GardenGerty (160610)

• United States

9 Nov

I have all kinds of stuff coming out my ears. If I find out anything about the phrase I will let you know.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

I've used it a lot but then it suddenly struck me that it was very odd! lol

@BarBaraPrz (47254)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

9 Nov

I thought wattles were those hanging fleshy things under birds' and old peoples' chins...

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

Haha. Yes, those are wattles too.

I'm in the middle of developing one myself.

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@snowy22315 (180359)

• United States

9 Nov

Never heard that one.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

Really? It seems to be fairly common among myLotters.

@amnabas (14032)

• Karachi, Pakistan

9 Nov

Never heard of this phrase sounds interesting.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov

I guess every language has some strange idioms.

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@wolfgirl569 (105820)

• Marion, Ohio

9 Nov

I wish I had money coming out of mine

. I have heard it before

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

Yes, that would be good.

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@AliCanary (3224)

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9 Nov

Me, too! It's one of those things that charities like to send, unasked for, to try to get me to donate. I donate the gift tags, lol

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

Yes, that's how I got a lot of mine. Address labels were also sent out in this way.

@freelancermariagrace (27755)

• Philippines

9 Nov

It is my first time hearing about this, and I will research how to use it later. Hehe.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

I'm sure every country has its strange idioms.

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@Beestring (14516)

• Hong Kong

9 Nov

This idiom is new to me. I've learned something. Thank you.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov

Idioms can be hard to learn - and to understand.

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@jstory07 (139504)

• Roseburg, Oregon

9 Nov

I have heard that saying before. You have to much of one thing.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov

Yes, that's the meaning.

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@RasmaSandra (79649)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

9 Nov

No gift tags and no wrapping paper and nothing else here for Christmas but I might get an artificial Christmas tree,

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Nov

We bought a tree last year. I'll have to get it out soon and try to find somewhere to set it up.

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@Dreamerby (4578)

• Calcutta, India

9 Nov

Oh I didn't know about this idiom! Thanks for educating!!

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov

You're welcome. A new language can be very hard to learn sometimes.

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@Ghostlady (1286)

• United States

9 Nov

I searched as well...but it just says it is an Old English saying.

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@JudyEv (339414)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov

Often you can find something about the origin but not in this case.

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