English-Finnish translations for fall on deaf ears

• kaikua kuuroille korville
  Näin ollen pyydän, että Euroopan unionin toimielimet eivät antaisi Yolanda Pulecion, Ingrid Betancourtin äidin, pyynnön kaikua kuuroille korville. I therefore ask the European institutions not to let this call from Mrs Yolanda Pulecio, the mother of Ingrid Betancourt, fall on deaf ears.

Definition of fall on deaf ears

• Of a request, complaint, statement, etc, to be ignored

Synonyms

• go in one ear and out the other

Examples

• Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears

Related words

• fall on
• fall vacation
• fall upon
• fall onto
• fall along
• falling stones
• fall on someone's neck
• it didn't fall on deaf ears
• fall to someone's share