go in one ear and out the other
Verb
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To be heard but not attended to, when a person fails to pay attention.
- He told me who he saw, but it went in one ear and out the other.
- French: rentrer par une oreille et ressortir par l'autre
- German: zum einen Ohr hinein- und zum anderen wieder hinausgehen
- Russian: в одно́ у́хо влета́ет, в друго́е вылета́ет
- Spanish: entrar por un oído y salir por el otro
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