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Synonyms

turn a deaf ear

Idioms  

  1. Refuse to listen, as in You can plead all day but he's turning a deaf ear to everyone. This expression dates from the first half of the 1400s and was in most proverb collections from 1546 on. Also see fall on deaf ears.

Example Sentences

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“When I started the environmental education program I thought they were going to turn a deaf ear to us … and at first that happened,” Domínguez said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2022

"I'm not blind to it. It's not like I turn a deaf ear to all of this," Tagovailoa explained.

From Fox News • Dec. 6, 2021

But the same media turn a deaf ear to the many articulate voices for justice and accountability that have been rising from all across this fracked nation, in their respective communities.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2018

They could plead that the change is just a technicality, but their lenders may turn a deaf ear.

From Economist • Nov. 14, 2013

But it was his own past life, his friends, his popularity, which now literally conspired against him, and caused his judges to turn a deaf ear to his entreaties.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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