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are you deaf

idiom

A rhetorical question asked to confront a nondeaf interlocutor who has failed to hear something.


Anchors to
Related idioms2entries
  1. 01

    preach to deaf ears

    To attempt to persuade a party that does not wish to listen or cannot be altered in its conviction.

  2. 02

    stone deaf

    Utterly deaf.

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