In One Ear and Out the Other
What it means
Heard without any of it being taken in or remembered afterwards.
Where it comes from
Chaucer used a version of the line in the 1300s, and the image has not needed updating since. The head gets treated as a corridor rather than a room.
The puzzle it came from
In One Ear and Out the Other was the answer to the Phrasicle of September 23, 2025. The clue read In ____ ____ and ____ the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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each
other
half
time
zone
second
hand
chosen
one
way
keen
ear
drum
roll
call
jet
black
out
house
arrest
Phrasicle: In One Ear and Out the Other