a long time ago, In Hong Kong, most high-interest moneylenders are Indians, and they wore big ear-rings to identify themselves. That’s why people called them “big ear hole” 大耳隆 (daai6 yi5 lung1). By the way, there is another explanation, money lenders put large coins in their ears, which lead people to imagine that their ears have large orifices.
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