Usually means: Heard but quickly forgotten information.
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  1. go in one ear and out the other: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. go in one ear and out the other: Wiktionary
  3. go in one ear and out the other: Dictionary.com

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  1. go in one ear and out the other: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (go in one ear and out the other)

verb:  (idiomatic) To be heard but not attended to, when a person fails to pay attention.

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