turn a deaf ear

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turn a deaf ear (third-person singular simple present turns a deaf ear, present participle turning a deaf ear, simple past and past participle turned a deaf ear)

1. (figuratively, transitive with to) To refuse to listen to something.

   They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties.

• fall on deaf ears
• preach to deaf ears
• turn a blind eye

• “turn a deaf ear to something” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “turn a deaf ear”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “turn a deaf ear”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.