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are you deaf

idiom
Meaning

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


Examples
SIMPLE

I called you twice, are you deaf?

CONTEXTUAL

I have asked you to clean your room three times already, are you deaf?

COMPLEX

After he ignored her repeated warnings about the rising water, she finally shouted in frustration, are you deaf?

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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