turn a deaf ear

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turn a deaf ear

to ignore someone when they complain or ask for something. In the past they've tended to turn a deaf ear to such requests. (often + to)

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He tried to turn a deaf ear to these discussions of the best patterns of long clothes for the coming baby; tried to turn away and avoid seeing the mysterious, endless strips of knitting, the triangles of linen, and so on, to which Dolly attached special importance. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context said the earnest girl, folding her hands as the tears coursed down her face, 'do not turn a deaf ear to the entreaties of one of your own sex; the first--the first, I do believe, who ever appealed to you in the voice of pity and compassion. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

References in classic literature

He tried to turn a deaf ear to these discussions of the best patterns of long clothes for the coming baby; tried to turn away and avoid seeing the mysterious, endless strips of knitting, the triangles of linen, and so on, to which Dolly attached special importance.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

said the earnest girl, folding her hands as the tears coursed down her face, 'do not turn a deaf ear to the entreaties of one of your own sex; the first--the first, I do believe, who ever appealed to you in the voice of pity and compassion.

Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context

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