fall on deaf ears

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fall on deaf ears (第三人称单数简单现在时 falls on deaf ears，现在分词 falling on deaf ears，过去式 fell on deaf ears，过去分词 fallen on deaf ears)

1. (不及物，比喻义) 被忽略，被当成耳旁风

   近义词： go in one ear and out the other

   Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears. ― 每次我叫他干什么，都被当成耳旁风。

   • 2020 6月 17, Christian Wolmar, “The strategy of 'don't use the railways' must be reversed...”, 出自 Rail，页号 44:

     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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参见

• turn a deaf ear
• preach to deaf ears

延伸阅读

• “fall on deaf ears”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “fall on deaf ears” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “fall on deaf ears” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.