Sentences with phrase «put on deaf ears»
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Bharara then reiterated a warning that he has issued several times before, but one that, as he put it, «keeps seeming to fall on deaf ears.»
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Once again, my appeal fell on deaf ears, eliciting this response — obviously intended to put an end to the discussion — from Fleishman:
Maybe now that I've started putting my picture on my CV that shouldn't happen as much — what will happen is I will be passed over for everything I apply for everywhere in the world and I'll just rot wherever I am when I run out of money and am still expected to PAY because at the moment I'm in a country (Mexico) where the concept of «free rent in exchange for teaching English» seems to be falling on deaf ears even when I say it in Spanish.
When the arguments over effective cause of sale fell on deaf ears, the licensee was — to put it politely — hooped.