Idiom
are you deaf
Meaning
A rhetorical question asked to confront a nondeaf interlocutor who has failed to hear something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I called you twice, are you deaf?”
“I have asked you to clean your room three times already, are you deaf?”
“After he ignored her repeated warnings about the rising water, she finally shouted in frustration, are you deaf?”
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?”
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