fall on deaf ears

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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