He is stone deaf and cannot hear you.
stone deaf
idiomUtterly deaf.
You must speak clearly because my grandfather has become stone deaf over the years.
Despite being stone deaf since birth, the musician developed an extraordinary ability to feel the vibrations of the instruments through the floorboards.
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are you deaf
A rhetorical question asked to confront a nondeaf interlocutor who has failed to hear something.
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carved in stone
Unchangeable.
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cast the first stone
To act self-righteously in accusing another person, believing oneself to be blameless.
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get blood out of a stone
To do something difficult, frustrating, or pointless.
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kill two birds with one stone
To solve two problems with one single action.
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leave no stone unturned
To search or investigate thoroughly.
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preach to deaf ears
To attempt to persuade a party that does not wish to listen or cannot be altered in its conviction.
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rolling stone
A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.