fall on deaf ears








< Also see turn a deaf ear.

In addition to the idioms beginning with ear

  • early bird catches the worm
  • early on
  • early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
  • earn one’s keep
  • earn one’s stripes
  • ears are burning, one’s
  • ear to the ground, have one’s

also see:

  • all ears
  • believe one’s ears
  • bend someone’s ear
  • can’t make a silk purse out of sow’s ear
  • coming out of one’s ears
  • cute as a button (bug’s ear)
  • fall on deaf ears
  • flea in one’s ear
  • have someone’s ear
  • in one ear and out the other
  • lend one’s ear
  • music to one’s ears
  • out on one’s ear
  • pin someone’s ears back
  • play by ear
  • prick up one’s ears
  • put a bug in someone’s ear
  • turn a deaf ear
  • up to one’s ears
  • walls have ears
  • wet behind the ears
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