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Idioms and Phrases
Be ignored or disregarded, as in Any advice we give them about remodeling seems to fall on deaf ears . This expression transfers physical inability to hear to someone who does not want to listen. [1400s] Also see turn a deaf ear .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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