FALL ON DEAF EARS

Meaning of FALL ON DEAF EARS in English

to be ignored or not noticed by other people :

Her advice fell on deaf ears.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

FALL ON DEAF EARS — not be responded to, be ignored or disregarded, be passed without receiving attention
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FALL ON DEAF EARS — be ignored. → deaf
Concise Oxford English vocab
FALL ON DEAF EARS — see ear
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FALL ON DEAF EARS — see ear
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FALL ON DEAF EARS — See ↑ IGNORE 1
Longman Activator English vocab
FALL ON DEAF EARS — talk to people who will not listen, really deaf If you talk to the workers about management's problems, your message …
English Idioms vocab
FALL ON DEAF EARS — talk to people who will not listen (See also really deaf ) If you talk to the workers about management's …
English Idioms vocabulary
FALL ON DEAF EARS — потраченный впустую
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FALL ON DEAF EARS — пропасть впустую
Англо-Русский словарь английских идиом
FALL ON DEAF EARS — пропасть впустую
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
FALL ON DEAF EARS — потраченный впустую
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
ON
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FALL
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EARS — THE WIPING OF THE EARS: The Imamis are agreed - in following the Imams from the pure family - that …
Advanced Islamic English Dictionary
EARS — dalunggan;dunggan
English-Visayan vocabulary
ON — I. (|)ȯn, (|)än, in the southeastern US sometimes (|)ōn preposition Etymology: Middle English, preposition & adverb, fr Old English an, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FALL — I. ˈfȯl verb ( fell ˈfel ; fall·en ˈfȯlən also in poetry & sometimes +V in prose -ln ; also …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DEAF — I. ˈdef, archaic & dial -ē- adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English deef, from Old English dēaf; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EARS — plural of ear present third singular of ear
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DEAF — (a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
Английский словарь Webster
DEAF — (a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- …
Английский словарь Webster
DEAF — (a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a …
Английский словарь Webster
DEAF — ( a. ) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DEAF — ( a. ) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
FALL — /fawl/ , v. , fell, fallen, falling , n. v.i. 1. to drop or descend under the force of gravity, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DEAF — — deafly , adv. — deafness , n. /def/ , adj., deafer, deafest , n. adj. 1. partially or wholly …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FALL — I. ˈfȯl verb ( fell ˈfel ; fall·en ˈfȯ-lən ; fall·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English feallan; akin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DEAF — ˈdēf adjective Etymology: Middle English deef, from Old English dēaf; akin to Greek typhlos blind, typhein to smoke, Latin fumus …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FALL
Webster English vocab
DEAF — adj obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. 2. deaf ·vt to deafen. 3. deaf ·adj deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. …
Webster English vocab
FALL — [fall] vb fell ; fall.en ; fall.ing [ME, fr. OE feallan; akin to OHG fallan to fall and perh. to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DEAF — [deaf] adj [ME deef, fr. OE deaf; akin to Gk typhlos blind, typhein to smoke, L fumus smoke--more at fume] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FALL — / fɔːl; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( fell / fel; NAmE / fall·en / ˈfɔːlən; NAmE /) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DEAF — / def; NAmE / adjective ( deaf·er , deaf·est ) 1. unable to hear anything or unable to hear very …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ON — I. on 1 S1 W1 /ɒn $ ɑːn, ɒːn/ BrE AmE preposition [ Language: Old English ] 1 . ON …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FALL — I. fall 1 S1 W1 /fɔːl $ fɒːl/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense fell /fel/, past participle fallen /ˈfɔːlən …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DEAF — deaf W3 /def/ BrE AmE adjective [ Language: Old English ] 1 . physically unable to hear anything or unable …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FALL — v. & n. --v.intr. (past fell; past part. fallen) 1 a go or come down freely; descend rapidly from a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
DEAF — adj. 1 wholly or partly without hearing (deaf in one ear). 2 (foll. by to) refusing to listen or comply. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FALL — v. & n. v.intr. (past fell; past part. fallen) 1 a go or come down freely; descend rapidly from a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DEAF — adj. 1 wholly or partly without hearing (deaf in one ear). 2 (foll. by to) refusing to listen or comply. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FALL — v. & n. --v.intr. (past fell; past part. fallen) 1. a go or come down freely; descend rapidly from a …
Oxford English vocab
DEAF — adj.1 wholly or partly without hearing (deaf in one ear). 2 (foll. by to) refusing to listen or comply. 3 …
Oxford English vocab
ON — The preposition is pronounced /ɒn/. The adverb and the adjective are pronounced /ɒn/. Frequency: The word is one of the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FALL — ( falls, falling, fell, fallen) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DEAF — ( deafer, deafest) 1. Someone who is deaf is unable to hear anything or is unable to hear very well. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DEAF — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be born blind/deaf etc (= be blind, deaf etc when born ) deaf mute go …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DEAF — [plural] [noun]Many of the TV programmes are broadcast with subtitles for the deaf (= deaf people).
Cambridge English vocab
FALL — Synonyms and related words : Niagara, Scotch mist, Waterloo, abate, abatement, ablate, accept, apostasy, ascend, assail, assault, associate with, attack, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
DEAF — Synonyms and related words : authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, borne, bullheaded, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf and dumb, deaf to …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FALL — INDEX: 1. when someone accidentally falls from a standing position 2. to almost fall from a standing position 3. when …
Longman Activator English vocab
EARS — • ↑ be all ears • ↑ be up to your ears/neck in • ↑ be up to your neck/ears …
Longman Activator English vocab
FALL — n. 25B6; verb bombs began to fall : DROP, descend, come down, go down; plummet, plunge, sink, dive, tumble; cascade. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
DEAF — n. 25B6; adjective she is deaf and blind : HARD OF HEARING, having impaired hearing; informal deaf as a post. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
EARS — n pl (euph) яички
Dirty English-Russian vocab
FALL — v. 1 descend, sink, subside, settle, drop or come (down), plummet, plunge, dive, (take a) nosedive; cascade The bucket fell …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
DEAF — adj. 1 hard of hearing, stone-deaf Sean is slightly deaf in his left ear 2 unhearing, unheedful, heedless, insensible, insensitive, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
EARS — sear sera
Anagrams English vocabulary
EARS — Electronic Access to Reference Services + Electronic Authoring and Routing System [DEC] + Explicit Archive and Retrieval System [Langley Research]
Computer Abbreviations English vocabulary
EARS — Explicit Archive and Retrieval System
Computer Acronyms English vocab
ON — 1. предл. 1) а) в пространственном значении указывает на нахождение на поверхности какого-л. предмета, на чем-л. на a house on …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FALL
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
EARS — Уши
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DEAF — прил. 1) а) глухой, лишенный слуха, тугой на ухо deaf of an ear, deaf in one ear ≈ глухой на …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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