A word whispered in the wrong ear, or not spoken to the right.
Whisper a word in the wrong ear and before you knew it you'd be short a head.
If the wrong ears heard who he really was, it would imperil the rest of us.
So it's not something that could reach the wrong ears if any of them were careless.
Let her wander too far, and you might find information gets to the wrong ears.
Lying on his stomach, using the wrong ear, he answered the phone.
We must simply hope that your maid will not volunteer what she knows to the wrong ears.
Gods, if you were to repeat to the wrong ear what you've just said to me, we would all be in trouble!
But it's the sort of thing, if it were to come to the wrong ears, that could send you to prison again.
"If I stick one behind the wrong ear, will someone proposition me?"