George Hopkins May 16, 2011:

Cunning Ad the 'räv' would be behind the ear!

Katarina Lindve May 16, 2011:

Definitely not "räv" ...as that is for a cunning person...

Katarina Lindve May 16, 2011:

Clown = not serious Well, in Swedish it is used for someone who is just fooling around, like tthe person acting out in the classroom is called "klassens clown"

Karin Lindqvist May 15, 2011:

Maybe this person is trying to say something like 'is there an (extremely annoying) echo in here'. I bit like here: http://paljettenq.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/musikhelvete/
where the writer is complaining about Radio ga-ga never ending, being monotonous, loudmothed etc... 'like having a pushy clown in your ear'. Something annoying that you can't escape...

Shawn Champion (asker) May 14, 2011:

Karin, no listening or talking. It's an online survey and some of the questions get pretty repetitive.

Karin Lindqvist May 14, 2011:

Does the survey involve listening to something/talking to somebody? In that case it might be that this person is saying that there is a clown (fool, idiot) talking into his/her ear (i.e. in his/her earphone, or on the phone to customer support for example). As far as I'm aware it's not a saying... If it's about a phone call I would suggest 'there's a clown/fool/idiot on the other end of the line'