English-French translations for turn a deaf ear

• faire la sourde oreille
  L'Europe ne peut faire la sourde oreille à ces appels. Europe cannot turn a deaf ear to them.
  Je demande donc à l’Assemblée de ne pas faire la sourde oreille à ces demandes de cofinancement. To requests for such co-funding, then, I ask the House not to turn a deaf ear.
  La Commission européenne a décidé de faire la sourde oreille au sujet des témoignages de persécutions en provenance d'Éthiopie. The European Commission has decided that it would prefer to turn a deaf ear to the reports of persecution that are emerging from Ethiopia.

Definition of turn a deaf ear

• To refuse to listen to something

Examples

• They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties.

Related words

• turn a blind eye
• turn a cartwheel
• turn a blind eye on / to sth
• turning a blind eye to
• not turn a hair
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• turn over a new leaf
• turn into a pumpkin
• a bad penny always turns up