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Verb
turn a deaf ear (third-person singular simple present turns a deaf ear, present participle turning a deaf ear, simple past and past participle turned a deaf ear)
- (figuratively, transitive with to) To refuse to listen to something.
- They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties.
Translations
to refuse to listen or hear something
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 充耳不聞／充耳不闻 (zh) (chōng'ěrbùwén)
- Finnish: kaikua kuuroille korville (fi) (subject is the thing that is ignored or disregarded)
- French: faire la sourde oreille (fr)
- Galician: facerse o xordo
- German: (gegenüber etwas) sich taub stellen
- Hungarian: a füle botját sem mozdítja (hu)
- Icelandic: láta sem vind um eyru þjóta, láta eins og vind um eyru þjóta (is), daufheyrast við, skella skolleyrum við
- Italian: fare orecchi da mercante
- Japanese: 聞く耳を持たぬ (きくみみをもたぬ, kiku mimi o motanu)
- Maori: tetērongo, whakatuturi, whātuturi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vende det døve øret til (no)
- Polish: puszczać mimo uszu impf, puścić mimo uszu pf
- Russian: пропуска́ть ми́мо уше́й (ru) (propuskátʹ mímo ušéj), пропусти́ть ми́мо уше́й (ru) (propustítʹ mímo ušéj, literally “to let go past one's ears”)
- Spanish: hacerse el sordo, hacer oídos sordos
- Swedish: slå dövörat till (sv)
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