fall on deaf ears

I think this play upon words fell on deaf ears.

"But I very much fear my words fall on deaf ears."

So far, though, the campaign seems to be falling on deaf ears.

Their voices will almost certainly fall on deaf ears, but Washington is a place they should be heard.

But I suspect this is going to fall on deaf ears.

And even if there were, their cries would fall on deaf ears.

"We make these appeals but they fall on deaf ears," he said last week.

"I think there may be some people that sometimes things fall on deaf ears," Davis said.

Unfortunately, in an election year calls to leave well enough alone often fall on deaf ears.

In the past, he said, complaints about the police fell on deaf ears.

However, we fear that these proposals will fall on deaf ears.

Even' one of those letters had fallen on deaf ears.

I pressed the case for you, but it fell on deaf ears.

Then and later, his proposals for an open world fell on deaf ears.

However, we must, of course, ensure that it does not fall on deaf ears.

"Let's hope his words do not fall on deaf ears," he said softly to himself.

But for the most part our appeals have fallen on deaf ears.

But if such words were in fact uttered, they fell on deaf ears.

But her cries fell on deaf ears; the man was dead.

But her calls for street demonstrations have fallen on deaf ears.

I hope, that for once, this wont fall on deaf ears.

But that argument, too, seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

It has been attempted by some and fallen on deaf ears.

I welcome the statement by the Council that it will not fall on deaf ears.

But the warnings to freshmen, at least, often fall on deaf ears.