fall on deaf ears
Verb
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Verb
fall on deaf ears
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a request, complaint, statement, etc, to be ignored.
- Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.
- (be ignored): go in one ear and out the other
- French: tomber dans l’oreille d’un sourd
- German: auf taube Ohren stoßen
- Italian: essere ignorato, non trovare ascolto
- Spanish: caer en saco roto
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