/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Fall Together by the Ears (To)
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To fight and scratch each other; to contend in strife. “To fall together by the ears” is “inter se certăre;” but “to set together by the ears” is “discordium concitare.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.