"talk to a brick wall" meaning in English

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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "talking to a brick wall",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "talked to a brick wall",
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    },
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      "form": "talked to a brick wall",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bricks",
          "orig": "en:Bricks",
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            "Building materials",
            "Construction",
            "Materials",
            "Architecture",
            "Engineering",
            "Manufacturing",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Technology",
            "Human activity",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human"
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Talking",
          "orig": "en:Talking",
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      "glosses": [
        "To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object."
      ],
      "id": "en-talk_to_a_brick_wall-en-verb-oJnQFCgz",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, colloquial) To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "like talking to a brick wall"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "zh",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "對牛彈琴"
        },
        {
          "code": "zh",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "note": "对牛弹琴 (duìniútánqín, literally “to play the guqin to a cow”)",
          "sense": "Translations"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "subject is the thing that is ignored or disregarded",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "kaikua kuuroille korville"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "parler à un mur"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "mówić jak do ściany"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "vorbi cu pereții"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "vorbi singur"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "talk to a brick wall"
}

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    {
      "form": "talking to a brick wall",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talked to a brick wall",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talked to a brick wall",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "like talking to a brick wall"
    }
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      "glosses": [
        "To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, colloquial) To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object."
      ],
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "對牛彈琴"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "note": "对牛弹琴 (duìniútánqín, literally “to play the guqin to a cow”)",
      "sense": "Translations"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "subject is the thing that is ignored or disregarded",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "kaikua kuuroille korville"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "parler à un mur"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "mówić jak do ściany"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "vorbi cu pereții"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "vorbi singur"
    }
  ],
  "word": "talk to a brick wall"
}