Usually means: Ignored despite efforts to communicate.
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  1. fall on deaf ears: Merriam-Webster
  2. fall on deaf ears: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fall on deaf ears: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fall on deaf ears: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. fall on deaf ears: Wiktionary
  6. fall on deaf ears: Dictionary.com
  7. The Fall on Deaf Ears: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. fall on deaf ears: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. fall on deaf ears: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fall on deaf ears: Idioms

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To be ignored.

Similar:
turn a deaf ear, preach to deaf ears, unheed, close one's ears, ignore, unhear, disregard, fall by the wayside, deaf, shut one's eyes, more...

Opposite:
be well-received, be heard, be acknowledged, be understood

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Similar:
turn a deaf ear, preach to deaf ears, unheed, close one's ears, ignore, unhear, disregard, fall by the wayside, deaf, shut one's eyes, more...

Opposite:
be well-received, be heard, be acknowledged, be understood



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