Around (one's) ears idiom
If something is around your ears, it surrounds you or it is around you, especially when something very bad has happened or something has failed disastrously or fell flat.
As soon as he learned that Marie refused to marry him, the world around his ears was full of sorrows and sadness.
Your talent does not guarantee that you are going to win the singing competition. Who knows if it may still fall around your ears?
The death of her mother made Genie break down in tears and feel as if the world has collapsed around her ears.
Someone or something is present in a particular place.
To use fog to surround someone or something; to make someone or something stay still because of fog