English-Spanish translations for turn a deaf ear

• hacer oídos sordos
  Europa no puede hacer oídos sordos a su sufrimiento. Europe cannot turn a deaf ear to them.
  Hacer oídos sordos a esa reivindicación sería hacerle un flaco favor a la Unión Europea. To turn a deaf ear to them would be doing the European Union a disservice.
  La Comisión Europea ha decidido que sería preferible hacer oídos sordos a los informes sobre actos de represión que están llegando de Etiopía. The European Commission has decided that it would prefer to turn a deaf ear to the reports of persecution that are emerging from Ethiopia.
• hacerse el sordo

Definition of turn a deaf ear

• To refuse to listen to something

Examples

• They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties.

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