- turn a deaf ear to a request
- оста́ться глухи́м к про́сьбе
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turn a deaf ear to a request
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turn a deaf ear (to) — ▪ To pretend not to have heard ▪ To ignore ● deaf To refuse to listen (to) ● ear * * * turn a deaf ear (to) phrase to refuse to listen to a warning, a request, or an attempt to change your attit … Useful english dictionary
turn a deaf ear — phrasal : to refuse to listen * * * turn a deaf ear (to) 1. To pretend not to have heard 2. To ignore • • • Main Entry: ↑deaf turn a deaf ear To refuse to listen (to) • • • Main Entry: ↑ear * * * … Useful english dictionary
turn a deaf ear — If someone turns a deaf ear to you, they don t listen to you. (Dorking School Dictionary) If you turn a deaf ear to something, you refuse to listen. Sam turned a deaf ear to his wife s advice and went off in the rain without an… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
turn a deaf ear to — pretend not to hear, refuse to hear The company turned a deaf ear to our demands for more money and holidays. Digest 20/2002 to ignore someone The child had been whining and crying all day. Eventually his mother turned a deaf ear and ignored him … Idioms and examples
deaf — [ def ] adjective ** not able to hear anything, or not able to hear very well. Many deaf people wear a hearing aid to help them hear. Deaf people often use their hands to communicate in sign language, and many can lip read what other people are… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
ear — ear1 earless, adj. earlike, adj. /ear/, n. 1. the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane … Universalium
deaf */*/ — UK [def] / US adjective Word forms deaf : adjective deaf comparative deafer superlative deafest not able to hear anything, or not able to hear very well. Many deaf people wear a hearing aid to help them hear. Deaf people often use their hands to… … English dictionary
refusal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Declining to do or accept Nouns refusal; nonacceptance, denial, declining, declination, rejection; disclaimer, repudiation; negation, contradiction; rebuff, repulse, snub. Informal, thumbs down. See… … English dictionary for students
ARAB WORLD, 1945–2006 — The Arab world is divided into four subregions: the Maghreb (morocco , tunisia , algeria , libya , Mauritania), the Nile Valley (egypt and Sudan), the Fertile Crescent (syria , lebanon , iraq , jordan , and the palestinian authority ), and the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
refuse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trash, truck, rubbish, waste, leavings, garbage. See uselessness. v. See refusal. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. rubbish, litter, waste, leavings; see trash 1 , 3 . v. Syn. decline, reject, repudiate, deny,… … English dictionary for students
Harry S. Truman: The Truman Doctrine — ▪ Primary Source Throughout 1946 Communist forces, supported by the Soviet satellite states of Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania, carried on a full scale guerrilla war against the Greek government. At the same time the U.S.S.R.… … Universalium
