turn a deaf ear

"There's only so many times you can turn a deaf ear to being called murdering scum," smiles former fox hunt master, Byron John.

The Arab group of nations says the Security Council cannot turn a deaf ear to the pleas of the international community demanding a ceasefire.

They turn a deaf ear when the Russian leader dismisses Ukraine as a fake nation without a real identity.

“The willingness of the national media to just turn away and turn a deaf ear …. to the disclosures that when Vice President Biden left office he left with classified documents as well, it just shows you,” Mr. Pence said.

That's why, when Hamza beats up his wife on the smallest of pretexts, the neighbours in their congested tenement housing society turn a deaf ear to her cries.