Meaning of fall on deaf ears | Babel Free

Definitions

To be ignored.

figuratively, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.”

“Then there's the sad fact that for many, this place is all they know. It's home. Soooo, conversation relating to living beyond the walls falls on deaf ears sometimes.”

“My earlier warnings, both in RAIL and in an article I wrote for The Times, have not fallen on deaf ears. There are many people (I suspect most) in the [rail] industry who recognise that telling people not to use their trains will cause lasting damage, but they are silenced publicly because they are now taking the Government's shilling.”

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