choose not to hear
refuse to listen
to ignore what someone says
Please do not just turn a deaf ear to their cries for help.
It was too cheap when Sarah turned a deaf ear to our insistence.
The Bank tended to turn a deaf ear to ATM card lost complaints.
When I asked Michael to go with me for help – he just turned a deaf ear.
How can you turn a deaf ear to the crying victims of an accident?
The police turned a deaf ear to all the pleas made by the girl’s family.
The novelist has not turned a deaf ear to the criticisms.
The current administration has turned a deaf ear to the majority.
The customer had turned a deaf ear to the pending payments.
I cannot turn a deaf ear to my family problems.
There is no origin for this idiom
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