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"text": "Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.",
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{
"ref": "1984 August 18, Eronel, “Women In Cages”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 6",
"text": "Then there's the sad fact that for many, this place is all they know. It's home. Soooo, conversation relating to living beyond the walls falls on deaf ears sometimes.",
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"ref": "2020 June 17, Christian Wolmar, “The strategy of 'don't use the railways' must be reversed...”, in Rail, page 44",
"text": "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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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "kaikua kuuroille korville"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "tomber dans l’oreille d’un sourd"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "auf taube Ohren stoßen"
},
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nafál 'al oznáim arelót",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "נָפַל עַל אֹזְנַיִם עֲרֵלוֹת"
},
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"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "süket fülekre talál"
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"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "essere ignorato"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "non trovare ascolto"
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"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "cadere nel vuoto"
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"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "falle på døve ører"
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"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
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"note": "в одно́ у́хо влета́ет, в друго́е вылета́ет (v odnó úxo vletájet, v drugóje vyletájet, literally “it flies into one ear, it flies out from the other”)",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "caer en saco roto"
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"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "ceviṭivāni mundu śaṅkhamūdinaṭlu",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "చెవిటివాని ముందు శంఖమూదినట్లు"
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"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "kaikua kuuroille korville"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "tomber dans l’oreille d’un sourd"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "auf taube Ohren stoßen"
},
{
"code": "he",
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"roman": "nafál 'al oznáim arelót",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "נָפַל עַל אֹזְנַיִם עֲרֵלוֹת"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "süket fülekre talál"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "essere ignorato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "non trovare ascolto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "cadere nel vuoto"
},
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"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "falle på døve ører"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"note": "в одно́ у́хо влета́ет, в друго́е вылета́ет (v odnó úxo vletájet, v drugóje vyletájet, literally “it flies into one ear, it flies out from the other”)",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "caer en saco roto"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "ceviṭivāni mundu śaṅkhamūdinaṭlu",
"sense": "of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored",
"word": "చెవిటివాని ముందు శంఖమూదినట్లు"
}
],
"word": "fall on deaf ears"
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