[post_page_title]”The walls have ears”[/post_page_title]
The cautionary idiom “the walls have ears” warns against potential eavesdroppers. The phrase allegedly comes from a story about the Greek tyrant Dionysius (430- 367 BCE), who had a cave sculpted to represent an ear, carved into a rock between palace rooms so he could eavesdrop on his prisoners.
Throughout history, there have been legends of similar listening networks throughout palaces. Catherine de Medici, for example, was said to have built an intricate eavesdropping system throughout the Louvre, as well as there being a similar listening post in Hastings Castle in England.
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