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fall on deaf ears (third-person singular simple present falls on deaf ears, present participle falling on deaf ears, simple past fell on deaf ears, past participle fallen on deaf ears)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be ignored.
- Synonym: go in one ear and out the other
- Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.
1984 August 18, Eronel, “Women In Cages”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 6:Then there's the sad fact that for many, this place is all they know. It's home. Soooo, conversation relating to living beyond the walls falls on deaf ears sometimes.
2020 June 17, Christian Wolmar, “The strategy of 'don't use the railways' must be reversed...”, in Rail, page 44:My earlier warnings, both in RAIL and in an article I wrote for The Times, have not fallen on deaf ears. There are many people (I suspect most) in the industry who recognise that telling people not to use their trains will cause lasting damage, but they are silenced publicly because they are now taking the Government's shilling.
Translations
of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored
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