# are you deaf

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/are-you-deaf
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

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

## 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?

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