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in one ear and out the other |
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in (at) one ear and out (of) the other Prov. heard but not remembered. (Used to describe something that someone does not listen to.) Ellen: Did you tell Junior to be careful with the car when he drives it? Fred: Yes, but I think it went in one ear and out the other. The teacher felt that everything she told her students was in one ear and out the other. in one ear and out the other heard but not remembered I'd remind him about something and he'd let it go in one ear and out the other. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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and Adam Goldberg, clearly hired for his ability to talk very fast so that the most idiotic exposition will zoom in one ear and out the other. Probably, but study results tend to go in one ear and out the other because the results seem to conflict. Invited to look closely, readers will notice, though probably not at first glance, that five acrobatic clowns each have an extra torso@ that shadow pictures are not the animals they seem to be when the page is turned, and that a peaceful summer landscape is a surrealistic collage of such improbable images as a walking tree, an ice-skating bird, and a man sitting on a rock with a tree branch growing in one ear and out the other. |
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