Cheers, big ears.
If some one has good hearin do you say they have ears like a bat or is it something else
In the UK if you use 'bat ears' about someone it means they have large ears - not very complimentary. In this sense it has nothing to do with hearing, only size. It's a term which is even used medically to describe the condition, or was in my day!
On the model of "eyes like a hawk," which would be eyes with really extraordinary vision, "ears like a bat" may signify ears that hear exceptionally well, as a bat's ears do. I'm not sure that it's appropriate for humans, since most bats hear only frequencies too high to be heard by humans.
SSI think bats' ears are so often associated with large ears that "ears like a bat" would be understood in the same way as "ears like Dumbo the elephant". "Blind as a bat" is often heard, although bats don't actually have bad eyesight. Pamela
In Russian we say "Blind as a taupe"